Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)Helen Frankenthaler was an second generation Abstract Expressionist artist. Born in New York, she studied under Rufino Tamayo in high school, at the Dalton school in New York city, and later at Bennington College in Vermont. During the Abstract Expressionist Movement, she played a key role in transitioning the movement to Color Field painting. She invented the “soak-stain” technique where turpentine-thinned paint is poured onto canvas to create an illusion of the canvas having no 3D dimensions, and her piece Mountains and the Sea was hugely influential to the artists who then formed the Color Field school of painting. This technique was inspired by Pollock, as both of their works created natural and organic forms, while Frankenthaler's work did however sometimes refer to landscapes. In the 1960’s she also began to use watered-down acrylic paints to create her pours, and also later turned to woodcuts where she applied the same soak in process as well. This summary was complied using the sources below:
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