Author: Frankenthaler, HelenExploring works from the later period of Helen Frankenthaler’s life, this title features approximately 50 plates and archival images dating from 1988 to 2009. This book expands upon the original exhibition to include a wide range of important pieces from this prolific period in the artist's career. In her later years, her practice evolved through her use of diverse mediums and processes; the continuity between the late work and what came before is striking.Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, Frankenthaler expanded the possibilities of abstract painting while referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) has long been recognised as one of the great American artists of the 20th century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Colour Field painting with her invention of the soak-stain technique, which involved pouring thinned paint directly onto unprimed canvas. The juxtaposition of amorphous fields of colour and gestural brushstrokes produces a vigourous rhythm of activity that seems to convey both the expanse of landscape and the surface texture of mark-making.ISBN 9781942185888. Radius Books/Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. hb. 160 pages. 95 colour, 40 b/w ills. 33 x 25 cm.reprinting
