1957, Helen Frankenthaler, Western Dream -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Frankenthaler's Western Dream presents a lyrical and hallucinatory suggestion of landscape, sky, breeze, heat, and turf, with hints of flora and fauna scattered throughout. The sights and sensations seem to shimmer, coming into being and quickly fading away—an effect of the artist's innovative technique of staining the canvas. Many other painters, such as Morris Louis, followed her lead in this approach, which advanced the generational concern for flatness in painting as essential to the medium. Louis famously described Frankenthaler's work as "the bridge between [Jackson] Pollock and what is possible."
1957, Helen Frankenthaler, Western Dream -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Frankenthaler's Western Dream presents a lyrical and hallucinatory suggestion of landscape, sky, breeze, heat, and turf, with hints of flora and fauna scattered throughout. The sights and sensations seem to shimmer, coming into being and quickly fading away—an effect of the artist's innovative technique of staining the canvas. Many other painters, such as Morris Louis, followed her lead in this approach, which advanced the generational concern for flatness in painting as essential to the medium. Louis famously described Frankenthaler's work as "the bridge between [Jackson] Pollock and what is possible."