Helen Frankenthaler; Post-Abstract Expressionist

This is a beautiful quote from Helen Frankenthaler and describes well, her artwork:

"One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute."

-Helen Frankenthaler

An abstract painter who in her work embraces a kind of natural abstract beauty and grace, rather than the very gestural and painterly works of her predecessors. Frankenthaler is an immensely important artist of the 20th century. She was the first artist to just soak-stain raw canvas, developing her own innovative methods for this process. Some would call her work Color-Field painting; a movement that followed after Abstract Expressionism.

She knew the influential New York art critic Clement Greenberg, who through she met Willam deKooning and Jackson Pollack. And Here we have a direct link from the two chief abstract expressionists, Pollack and deKooning, and the chief pioneer of the movement that would follow after them. In her work we find a poetic voice that embraces spiritual essence over matter, and abstract over representational.