Frasi di Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler è stata una pittrice statunitense, parte del movimento del Color field.

✵ 17. Dicembre 1928 – 27. Dicembre 2011
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Helen Frankenthaler: Frasi in inglese

“For me, being a 'lady painter' was never an issue. I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.”

Quote by John Gruen, in 'The Party's Over Now: Reminiscences of the fifties — New York's artists, writers, musicians, and their friends'; Viking Press, 1972 - ISBN 0-916366-54-5; as cited by by Grace Glueck, in 'New York Times', 2011
1970s - 1980s

“It [the drip-paintings of Jackson Pollock ] was original, and it was beautiful, and it was new, and it was saying the most that could be said in painting up to that point - and it really drew me in. I was in awe of it, and I wanted to get at why.”

remembering November 1950, when Greenberg escorted her to a show of Pollock's work at the Betty Parsons Gallery
1970s - 1980s, interview with Deborah Salomon in 'New York Times', 1989

“We went around the room together, And he Clement Greenberg finally let me know that he thought my picture was the worst one in the show.. [she laughs]. At the same time he took my phone number.”

Greenberg visited her early show early 1950, Frankenthaler was asked to organize a benefit show of paintings by Bennington alumnae
1970s - 1980s, interview with Deborah Salomon in 'New York Times', 1989

“Look.... the sky!... you can feel the weight of it. It's as if it were packed with snow.”

1970s - 1980s, interview with Deborah Salomon in 'New York Times', 1989

“I make pictures, I don't make shelters!”

reacting on the idea of art-historian Dore Ashton of the 'colonizing emptiness' of her paintings
1970s - 1980s, interview with Deborah Salomon in 'New York Times', 1989

“When I say gesture, my gesture, I mean what my mark is... It is a struggle for me to both discard and retain what is gestural and personal, Signature....'Gesture' must appear out of necessity, not habit.”

Quote in: 'An interview with Helen Frankenthaler', by Geldzahler, The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 67
Frankenthaler explains the difference between gesture and signature in her painting
1970s - 1980s

“Painting is very private and personal. There's an emotional content, but I'm more involved in the light and color and drawing of a painting. I don't set out to portray an emotion.”

Quote from an interview in 'The Post', 1972; as cited in 'Helen Frankenthaler, noted abstract painter, dies at 83' https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/helen-frankenthaler-noted-abstract-painter-dies-at-83/2011/12/27/gIQAwr0dLP_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.08d9ecdb8773, Matt Schudel, December 27, 2011
1970s - 1980s

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