![](https://the-easel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/helen3-250x220.jpg)
Pure color: A curator’s new view of Helen Frankenthaler’s unprimed legacy
Carolina Miranda | LA Times | 16th September 2016
The 1960’s critic Clement Greenberg claimed modern art had finished contemplating nature. Henceforth, pure abstraction would be about colour. Frankenthaler, a friend of Greenberg’s, took this path and produced images with thin paint washes – sort of Jackson Pollock without evidence of the painter’s hand. But her career past 1970 was artistically uneventful. Pure abstraction, it turned out, was running out of puff.