Free Wheeling — Fine Art

Free Wheeling - 1971 by Helen Frankenthaler uses broad colour fields laid across the sheet. The paint spreads in open washes with edges that lose themselves into the ground.

This fine art print is ready to hang on arrival. Helen Frankenthaler worked with poured colour that soaks into the surface. The practice belongs to abstract colour field painting and the soak stain method. The white frame gives the picture a clean edge on the wall.

The white finish keeps the pale colour areas from feeling crowded at the border. You notice the thin outer paint first in a dining room on a side wall near the table. The open washes sit quietly against the plain paint beside it.