Oil paint on canvas
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Vessel
Presented by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation (Tate Americas Foundation) 2019
<p>Vessel was produced with Frankenthaler’s ‘soak-stain’ technique. The composition emphasises symmetry, yet the painted form appears to pulse with implied movement and energy. It seems to play with the familiar idea of inkblots used in psychological testing. Parts of the canvas are deliberately left unpainted to help structure the composition. As Frankenthaler noted: ‘[The] “negative” space has just as active a role as the “positive” painted space. The negative spaces maintain shapes of their own and are not empty.’</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2020</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
9 February 2023 – 5 March 2024
2024-03-05
9 February 2023 – 7 May 2023
2023-05-07
2023-02-09
Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.whitechapel.org/
4 June 2023 – 31 October 2023
2023-10-31
2023-06-04
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh (Arles, France)
2 December 2023 – 5 March 2024
2024-03-05
2023-12-02
Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany)
http://www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
2023-02-09
Women of Expressive Abstraction 1940-1970
Loan-out
Vessel
support: 2550 × 2397 mm
Presented by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation (Tate Americas Foundation) 2019
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<p>Vessel was produced with Frankenthaler’s ‘soak-stain’ technique. The composition emphasises symmetry, yet the painted form appears to pulse with implied movement and energy. It seems to play with the familiar idea of inkblots used in psychological testing. Parts of the canvas are deliberately left unpainted to help structure the composition. As Frankenthaler noted: ‘[The] “negative” space has just as active a role as the “positive” painted space. The negative spaces maintain shapes of their own and are not empty.’</p>
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