Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler was born in 1928 in Manhattan, New York. Helen attended Dalton School, which is located in New York. During high school, Helen studied with such artists as Rufino Tamayo, and later with Hans Hofmann. Helen Frankenthaler attended Bennington College. Helen Frankenthaler was also married to another abstract expressionist, Robert Motherwell, from 1958 to 1971.

The technique she created was one of greatness. Instead of painting on a primed canvas as was the usual technique, she took an unprimed canvas or other surface, still unprimed, and dumped paint all over it! She then allowed it to sit and soak, therefore staining the canvas. This technique became the epitome of her style, what she was nationally renowned for as an American artist. With her refined art style, she made a lasting effect on the art society as a whole,and she drew up a large crowed of future generation artists, that would come to be known as the Color Feild painters.

Helen opened a studio in New York, and was being trained under her mentor, Clement Greenberg, and art critic, who showered her off to the mojority of the 1950's artists, including but not limited too, Pollock and De Koo

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