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"I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it." (Metafilter)

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> "I had no desire to copy Pollock. I didn't want to take a stick and dip it
in a can of enamel. I needed something more liquid, watery, thinner. All my
life, I have been drawn to water and translucency. I love the water; I love to
swim, to watch changing seascapes. One of my favorite childhood games was to
fill a sink with water and punt nail polish into to see what happened when the
colors burst up the surface, merging into each other as floating, changing
shapes." - Helen Frankenthaler

_ Her paintings looked like watercolors, but were created with oils. To
achieve the effect, she heavily diluted her oil paints with turpentine, then
dripped them onto an unprimed canvas on the floor, in a brushless technique
reminiscent of Jackson Pollock's, called a "soak stain." But where Pollock's
paint was often thick and sat on top of the canvas, hers drenched it in color,
creating a unique, softer work. Ms. Frankenthaler passed away today, at the
age of 83, after a long illness.

Artnet has additional images of her work. Additional links can be found at
Against the Grain. Her piece _Nature ...

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