Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952 Uses a similar technique to Rothko; she combines her paint with solvent and applies them to unprimed canvas so they soak into fiber  Abstracted forms come from nature  Inspired by automatism; composition created entirely from the subconscious. Also an action painter.  Even flatter than Pollock’s painting; the paint almost fused with the fiber of the canvas and becomes very flat, where as Pollock’s paintings at least have the textures of the drips.

Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952

  • Uses a similar technique to Rothko; she combines her paint with solvent and applies them to unprimed canvas so they soak into fiber 
  • Abstracted forms come from nature 
  • Inspired by automatism; composition created entirely from the subconscious. Also an action painter. 
  • Even flatter than Pollock’s painting; the paint almost fused with the fiber of the canvas and becomes very flat, where as Pollock’s paintings at least have the textures of the drips.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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