Helen Frankenthaler was one of my all time favorites. She painted extraordinarily beautiful oversized canvases full of richly pigmented color fields.
Article by Eric Gibson – via WSJ.com
Helen Frankenthaler | Push Past Abstraction
In 1953 Helen Frankenthaler, who died this week at age 83, received a visit [...]
The hidden beauty of pollination
Pollination: it’s vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film “Wings of Life,” inspired by the vanishing of one of nature’s primary pollinators, [...]
The Hive Mind
How Hilary Berseth makes his buzzworthy sculptures.
Artists from Rodin to Warhol to Mark Kostabi have outsourced the construction of their work. Hilary Berseth goes them one better: He constructs basic frameworks of wire and wax, then lets teams of tiny yellow-and-black art fabricators finish the [...]
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