artist #1- Helen Frankenthaler

I discovered an artist named Helen Frakenthaler who's artwork interests me. She works with pouring art which is a type of marbling technique.

Frankenthaler uses a "soak-paint" technique which includes pouring paint onto enormous canvases placed on the floor. Frankenthaler was a major contributor to the history of post war American painting. She was an abstract painter. She died in 2011 at the age of 83. I would like to do larger scale paintings with ink. I think the pouring technique is a very interesting way to paint that I would like to try.

Her work method is as follows:

"Frankenthaler poured oil paints that she had thinned with turpentine that then soaked into the fabric of the canvas. Frankenthaler's soak-stain process created luminescent, misty compositions dominated by large areas of color that seemed to have emerged onto the canvas naturally and organically."


http://www.theartstory.org/artist-frankenthaler-helen.htm

Flirt, 1995
Screenprint on Rives BFK paper
26 3/4 × 39 1/2 in
67.9 × 100.3 cm
Edition of 126