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A review by bkish
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov
4.0
Helen Frankthaler was an artist in NYC in the 50s and up to her death in 2011. This is her story as told by alexander Nemerov who seems to have a fair knowledge of Art and who did research to compile this history of 10y in her life the early years.
I have a great love of Art and a fairly good knowledge especially modern art figurative and abstract. I knew her name and not her paintings and the author had some knowledge of her as she was a student of his father at Bennington.
She developed a style of painting I believe based on her experience of Pollack and she was not at his level. Helen Frankenthaler was jewish and came from a very prosperous family and her father who died young was a State Supreme court judge.
I think that Nemerov liked her and her art and yet I could find nothing about her to like.
So this biography covering only 10 y in her life explores her relationships to her own family, her relationships to men (I did not know that she and Motherwell married and divorced)) her development as an artist and her fierce determination to gain fame as an artist.
I believe that Nemerov was partial to her and yet he reveals from his research very disturbing aspects of Helen Frankenthaler during that period of time.
I am going to seek out some of her paintings here and when I return to NYC for a visit....
Judy g
I have a great love of Art and a fairly good knowledge especially modern art figurative and abstract. I knew her name and not her paintings and the author had some knowledge of her as she was a student of his father at Bennington.
She developed a style of painting I believe based on her experience of Pollack and she was not at his level. Helen Frankenthaler was jewish and came from a very prosperous family and her father who died young was a State Supreme court judge.
I think that Nemerov liked her and her art and yet I could find nothing about her to like.
So this biography covering only 10 y in her life explores her relationships to her own family, her relationships to men (I did not know that she and Motherwell married and divorced)) her development as an artist and her fierce determination to gain fame as an artist.
I believe that Nemerov was partial to her and yet he reveals from his research very disturbing aspects of Helen Frankenthaler during that period of time.
I am going to seek out some of her paintings here and when I return to NYC for a visit....
Judy g