Helen Frankenhaler b.1928, N.Y.
‘American post painterly abstraction’ artist.
Ties with Clement Greenberg between 1948-1960. Hans Hoffman. Influenced by Jackson Pollock, studied under Rufino Tamayo, married Robert Motherwell.
‘A really good painting looks as if it’s happened all at once.’ (Frankenhaler) –contradicts Greenberg’s opinion of painting somewhat.
‘Received the finest private progressive education New York City had to offer.’- Bennington College in Vermont, 1945-49.
Cubist composition styles- integration of flatness with the illusion of depth. Emphasis in early works on drawing. Process of staining.
Lee Krasner b.1908, N.Y. Brooklyn
1937-also studied under Hans Hoffman who helped her towards a new cubist abstraction.
Studied at Cooper Union and National Academy of design and worked on the WPA federal Art Project, 1935-43.
‘This is so good you would not know it was painted by a woman.’ –Hoffman. She therefore signed her work with the genderless, ‘L.K’.
Incredibly complex, introduction of collages-connected aggression to partner Jackson Pollock, overly worked yet tastefully restrained in colouring.
Grace Hartigan b.1922, N.Y. Newark
2nd generation Abstract Expressionist. Balance between figurative and and abstract. Outline of black, filled with blocks of colour.
Hartigan does not like to describe or reflect on the subject matter of her paintings. Distils until she has its essence- rawness into form and unity.
‘With a rage for order, how can there be art?’
Elaine de Kooning b.1918-1989, N.Y. Brooklyn
Figurative and Abstract also. ‘Realist and emotionally charged abandon’
Encouraged by her mother. Leonardo da Vinci Art School, N.Y. 1936, American Artists School.
Portraits by Hans Namuth
Willem de Kooning, 1959- Why include wife? This indicates her as an innate part of Willem. Nevertheless, distinctively in the background.
Jackson Pollock – surrounded by his work, energetically working, solidly focused. Props of Genius.
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