Blog #26, Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea, New York March 16, 2023

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DRAWINGS WITHIN NATURE:Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler

ΣΧΕΔΙΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ  ΜΕΣΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΦΥΣΗ΄Πινακες της Ελεν Φρανκενθαλερ στην γκαλλερη Γκαγκοσιαν στην Νεα Υορκη.  

My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates, and not nature per se. But a feeling. And the feeling of an order that is associated more with nature. Nature in seasons, maybe; but nature in, well, an order. And I think art itself is order out of chaos.
—Helen Frankenthaler

From the Press Release of the gallery:

"Frankenthaler’s celebrated 1952 composition, Mountains and Sea, was the first of her soak-stained canvases and was highly influential in the development of 1960s Color Field painting. By the 1970s, though, she had amplified her methods to include the expressive possibilities of surface inflection and density. Over the course of the 1980s, highly painterly canvases became her principal pictorial means, soon resulting in, during what would be her final decade, canvases of the greatest dramatic impact of her entire career, some of an unexpectedly large size."

This show covers Frankenthaler's work in the 1990s.  I was impressed with how many visitors were in the gallery (although it was not opening night), talking about the work and clearly enjoying the pieces. 

Τα εργα ειναι της δεκαετιας του 1990.  Μου εκανε εντυπωση ποσος κοσμος ηταν στην αιθουσα αν και ηταν καθημερινη.  Συνομιλουσαν για τα εργα και ηταν φανερο οτι η τεχνη της Φρανκεθαλερ τους ειχε συναρπασει.  

Here are some pieces:

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Enjoy the arts!

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