Helen Frankenthaler, 1928–2011

1956

... The method and the scale of it was, of course, borrowed from Jackson Pollock's procedure, but it was totally devoid of Pollock's angst-ridden search for the sublime. Frankenthaler said later that, fresh from the north Atlantic, she painted from the memories absorbed into not only her mind but her wrists as well. Painting became once again, as in many of its best periods, an instinctive coalition of hand and eye and controlling intelligence.


www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/28/helen-frankenthaler
www.nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/12/jerry-saltz-on-helen-frankenthaler-1928-2011.html?imw=Y&f=most-emailed-24h5