How wonderful to be a woman artist and learn from and admire female great abstract expressionists.
My work is just starting to flow and move more freely to color and movement and planes of color and shape. I love to peruse great works of art and women artists are on top of my list. I have so many favorites and never tire from looking at their work.
At the beginning of her career Frankenthaler was categorized as an abstract expressionist painter yet in 1960 the term Color Field painting was used to describe her work. Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation died this year at 83. What a full and marvelous career. This style was characterized by large areas of a more or less flat single color which I love so much. There is “no formula,” she said in an interview in The New York Times in 2003. “There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.”
Her work to me moved Abstract Expressionism into a new world of Minimalists.
I love to look at these great artists work and then just let it all go and paint freely having been given permission by these wonderful artists who simply let their feelings flow. I aspire to work so expressively.
Joan Mitchell an abstract expressionist composes with long curvilinear strokes or broad stains of color, that move and bend and make a bold statement for women artists. Did you know In 1959 Mitchell moved to France, settling first in Paris where she maintained a studio for nine years. In 1968 she made her home near the town of Vethuel in Monet country, about thirty-five miles northwest of Paris. Her studio and home were in a home that Monet had lived in from April 1878 to November 1881. Perhaps France will be my next stop.
Frida Kahlo. Considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Frida Kahlo began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident. How amazing to create such poignant works from bed. Powerful. I enjoy studying her compositions and marvel at her imagery.
Alice NeelAlice Neel, I love her paintings of women unusually angular. Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century. She was also a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and still life, Neel was never fashionable or in step with avant-garde movements. Sympathetic to the expressionist spirit of northern Europe and Scandinavia and to the darker arts of Spanish painting, she painted in a style and with an approach distinctively her own.
Louise Nevelson became renowned during the Abstract Expressionist period for constructing crated assemblages full of wooden items grouped together into monochromatically painted cubic structures. She worked with found objects imbued with a spiritual life that was informed by feminist ideals and Nevelson’s strong persona, which inspired multitudinous female artists associated with the women’s movement. Influenced by Duchamp’s found object sculptures, Nevelson sought to build abstract wooden environments, painted gold, black, or white. The narratives in her artwork originated from her personal migration history as a Jewish woman who relocated to America, and from her active life in New York’s artistic community.
Georgia O’Keeffe made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she first began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area, bold, large, moving.
I have so much to learn and learning from these great ladies is so exciting.
And now after learning, studying and being inspired I am letting it flow.
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