Helen Frankenthaler
Flood, 1967 (Synthetic polymer on canvas; 124 x 140 in. )
“A really good painting looks as if it happened at once,” Frankenthaler has said. Her method of making an instant painting was to mix paint with turpentine and let it trickle from a coffee can onto a piece of canvas laid on the floor.”
At the Denver Art Museum thru Feb. 3, 2008, this exhibit “brings together big, bright canvases by 20th-century artists who believed that the experience of looking at color was the most important thing a painting could offer. “
Exhibit next travels to:
Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Feb. 20-May 6, 2008)
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn. (June 20-Sept. 21, 2008).