Helen Frankenthaler is an AMERICAN Abstract Expressionist artist who was born in NYC and worked in the 1950's. She married another Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell.
Frankenthaler's style is called stain painting or drip painting by some. She uses fields of color and allows them to merge into other colors. Often she painted with the canvas on the floor and then applied a diluted oil-based paint directly to the canvas. The color "regions" were meant to imply images. The viewer read into the painting based on their personality and previous experiences. Frankenthaler imagined each time someone viewed her work they would have a different experience.
Abstract Expressionism
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