first of all, i think it is worth mentioning in a blog about art that last night was a night to celebrate art as i enjoyed thoroughly the kin concert in vienna. seriously...... you can't even begin to understand how incredible they are unless you see them live.
there, i've said my bit and i rest my peace.
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. Her major influencers were Jackson Pollock and Hans Hoffman. (love Pollock, don't so much love Hoffman)
Now, I know little of abstract expressionism painting.... but since i've recently found a new obsession in finger painting, I thought it deserved a little more research. I still like my coffee idea, but i'm thinking now...... what if I added an element of both ideas together? like, a patchwork of color and beauty, to convey emotion and feeling, with my coffee portraits on top. In my head it seems like it could work. I do very much like Helen's work too. Especially after i found this quote by her:
"What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?" ~Helen Frankenthaler
Helen was very inventive, and invented the "soak-stain" technique, in which she poured turpentine-thinned paint onto canvas, producing luminous color washes that appeared to merge with the canvas and deny any hint of three-dimensional illusionism. Her breakthrough gave rise to the movement promoted by the influential art critic Clement Greenberg as the "next big thing" in American art: Color Field painting, marked by airy compositions that celebrated the joys of pure color and gave an entirely new look and feel to the surface of the canvas.
there, i've said my bit and i rest my peace.
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. Her major influencers were Jackson Pollock and Hans Hoffman. (love Pollock, don't so much love Hoffman)
Now, I know little of abstract expressionism painting.... but since i've recently found a new obsession in finger painting, I thought it deserved a little more research. I still like my coffee idea, but i'm thinking now...... what if I added an element of both ideas together? like, a patchwork of color and beauty, to convey emotion and feeling, with my coffee portraits on top. In my head it seems like it could work. I do very much like Helen's work too. Especially after i found this quote by her:
"What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?" ~Helen Frankenthaler
Helen was very inventive, and invented the "soak-stain" technique, in which she poured turpentine-thinned paint onto canvas, producing luminous color washes that appeared to merge with the canvas and deny any hint of three-dimensional illusionism. Her breakthrough gave rise to the movement promoted by the influential art critic Clement Greenberg as the "next big thing" in American art: Color Field painting, marked by airy compositions that celebrated the joys of pure color and gave an entirely new look and feel to the surface of the canvas.
She recently died last year, very sad. However, her paintings will forever be her legacy, and cause us to remember her.
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-frankenthaler-helen.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Frankenthaler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Frankenthaler
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