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From 1984: Abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler



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In this report originally broadcast on “CBS Sunday Morning” September 16, 1984, correspondent Eugenia Zuckerman met with one of the most important of American post-war painters, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), as she prepared for an exhibition of her abstract expressionist work at the André Emmerich Gallery in New York City, and talked about her artistic process, which she described as “a kind of magic.”

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25 thoughts on “From 1984: Abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler
  1. Me gusta mucho la pintura abstracta te da esa libertad para pintar lo que se te venga en gana, eso sale de tus emociones mismas…to paint a picture is the same like bring the feelings out .

  2. If you asked her to sketch a woman walking in a field…..
    she couldn't accomplish anything that REMOTELY resembles this simple task. Garbage utterly and completely garbage.

  3. Years back, an artist friend took me to the Los Angeles Temporary Contemporary. Upon entering, one of the 1st pieces I cast my eyes upon was like the size of The Last Supper – – maybe 18' H x 45' W.

    It looked as if the canvas had been positioned at a slight slant and the "artist" had thrown buckets of paint at it. There were big round & oval splashy globs and some drips running down from each. The colors were primary & jewel tones.

    After viewing it for a while I said that I didn't understand, that I myself could've made that. My friend was in nirvana and simply said, "Ahhh, but HE did it first."

    When Michaelangelo was asked how he carved such magnificent statues, he simply said something like "you just chip away everything that is NOT the statue".

    Artists clearly just think differently – – it's possible that they owe their creativity to an ability (that is better than most) to tap into other dimentions and/or alternate universes.

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