Helen Frankenthaler 

Helen Frankenthaler
Born: December 12, 1928; Manhattan, New York, United States
Died: December 27, 2011; Darien, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Art Movement: Abstract Expressionism, Post-Painterly Abstraction
Painting School: New York School
Field: painting
Art institution: Hunter College, City University of New York, New York City, NY, US, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, US, National Academy Museum and School (National Academy of Design), New York City, NY, US
Soundtrack:
W. A. Mozart
Sonata for violin & piano No. 28 in E flat major, K. 380 (K. 374f) (1781)
1. Allegro
2. Andante con moto
3. Rondeau. Allegro
Henryk Szeryng, violin
Ingrid Haebler, piano
"Helen Frankenthaler is an American painter and printmaker known for developing a style based on the stain paint technique. His practice serves as a bridge between the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and the Color Field painters of the 1960s and influences a generation of New York painters. His work Mountains and Sea (1952), a mixture of pastel oil paints and charcoal on untreated canvas, prompted Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland to create their own styles of stained canvas. Born December 12, 1928 in New York, she studied with Rufino Tamayo at Dalton School and with Paul Feeley at Bennington College. Frankenthaler attracted the attention of art critic Clement Greenberg in the 1950s and over time his work gained international recognition. The Jewish Museum in New York hosted her first retrospective in 1960 and she continued to work in painting, printmaking and sculpture until her death on December 27, 2011 in Darien, Connecticut at the age of 83." (Translated from Artnet.com)