Interior Landscape
- Artist
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Date
- 1964
- Style
- Abstract expressionism
- Genre
- Abstract
- Location
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
"Interior Landscape" exemplifies Color field painting, a style of abstract art that emerged in mid-20th-century New York. The work features expansive, flat planes of canvas covered with large areas of solid color, emphasizing a flat picture plane that eschews gestural brushwork. Inspired by European modernism and closely related to abstract expressionism, this movement prioritizes the purity of color and the process of application, often using acrylic paints for their vibrant, staining qualities. The focus is on color itself as the subject, free from objective representation, creating a meditative interior landscape.
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