Helen Frankenthaler in 1956. Photograph: Gordon Parks/Getty Images (as in The Guardian, UK)
Another passing of the painter and the review of her life and work over the last week. The photo above and another one from the same sitting at The Telegraph caught my attention. Not because of the color coordination, matching colors of clothes and painting, but the enclosement and surround of paintings. Frankenthaler saw the paintings each as their own, independents, and that is how I’ve seen them in museums. For the first time, I really SEE the paintings, or at least, fragments of them but together to see them working together, areas of color and lines of color, overlapping and spills. This is not the way the artist worked on them, thus saw them. The video below was made for an Award, however, Frankenthaler talks abit about painting in it.
Click on the book above to find out more about it at IB Tauris. It is an interesting read, worth a read.
