Helen Frankenthaler and the Messy Art of Life Helen Frankenthaler and the Messy Art of Life With her innovative soak-stain paintings, Frankenthaler embraced color for its own sake, animating and elevating the most elemental sensations. What’s impressive about the early soak-stain Frankenthalers, of course, is how unpainted they are, how little brushwork there is in […]
