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What Helen Frankenthaler Learned About Painting From Visiting the Old Masters at the Prado Read an excerpt from the new book "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York." April 8, 2021 Portrait of American abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) as she poses in her studio, New York, New York, 1978. Photo by Brownie Harris/Corbis via Getty Images. Helen sat on the steps of the Prado, smoking a cigarette in the blazing heat of midafternoon while the museum was closed for siesta. By then she had been in the darkened galleries for five hours, having arrived wh...

Avant-garde Art The Origins of the Phrase Originally, "avant-garde" was a French military term for what would be called in English the vanguard of an army. However, its first application to art precedes by some decades the emergence of any distinctly avant-garde art movements. The coinage has generally been attributed to the French social theorist Henri de Saint-Simon. In his book Opinions litteraires, philosophiques et industrielles ( Literary, Philosophical, and Industrial Opinions) (1825), published in the year of his death, Saint-Simon wrote: "It is we artists who will serve you as avant...

Barbara Rose, art historian with a colourful private life – obituary She ranged from Spanish art to Minimalism, and married Frank Stella and lyricist Jerry Leiber before remarrying Richard DuBoff Barbara Rose Credit:  Chris Felver/Getty Images Barbara Rose, who has died aged 84, was an art historian, curator, critic, filmmaker and pioneer in several fields of scholarship, ranging from the art of Romanesque Spain to contemporary Minimalism. She championed the history of American art, and her first book, American Art since 1900: A Critical History (1967) was published in fourteen languages. ...

Barbara Rose, 1981. Photo: © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. December 27, 2020 at 6:22pm Art critic and historian Barbara Rose—who helped define the major art movements of the latter half of the twentieth century, and who consistently defended the medium of painting against reports of its obsolescence—died on Friday at age eighty-four from cancer. Distinguished by a perspicacity and openness in exploring postwar art and its contradictions, Rose’s prolific writing and interviews form a key contribution to the art history of the United States and beyond. After coming ...

The critic was known for linking artistic tendencies that few other writers intuited. December 28, 2020 Frank Stella, his wife Barbara Rose, Larry Poons, Lucinda Childs, Wilder Green, Barnett Newman and William Rubin, in Rubin's apartment, surrounded by artwork by Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb, Willem de Kooning, Andre Masson, Herbert Ferber, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, and David Smith. (Photo by William Grigsby/Condé Nast via Getty Images) Barbara Rose, the fierce but flexible critic best known for helping to usher in the new vanguard of Minimalism in the 1960s, died on...