Famous Artist

Helen Frankenthaler received immediate acclaim when she burst onto the New York art scene in 1952 with her youthful masterwork, "Mountains and Sea," in the National Gallery of Art since 1975. This is a cool composition of slender loops passing in and out of diaphanous washes of pale greens, blues and pinks distantly Cubist but feminized, without the harsh angles, aggressive edges. and dangerous vertices.  It is like a dance of seven veils. Frankenthaler went on to develop a highly personal style within the abstract expressionist movement.	"MOUNTAINS AND SEA" - 7 FEET X 10 FEET The artist explored a variety of linear components in her oil paintings of the 1950s, but in the 1960s she shifted her focus, embracing acrylic paints to explore open, flat fields of color, evident in "Nature Abhors a Vacuum."  Frankenthaler pictures: http://www.picsearch.com/index.cgi?q=Helen%20Frankenthaler&width=	"NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM"  In the 1980s she created twelve amazing large "Gateway" sculptures like those shown below.
	The idea for Frankenthaler's masterpiece Gateway (screen) took many years to evolve. In 1982 she had begun work on a colour intaglio and relief print on three sheets, Gateway, which was editioned in 1988.  Working with the lost-wax casting process, to produce parts of the frame of the editioned version of the screen, appealed to Frankenthaler. At the suggestion of the owner of the foundry, she used sand-blasted bronze plates, which formed the back of the screen. These she painted individually with acids, to produce ravishing bronze surfaces with patinas of extraordinary beauty. The editioned intaglio print, Gateway, was placed on the front of the screen.