While studying philosophy at Harvard he visited Alfred North Whitehead's lectures at Radcliffe, which were to influence his artistic philosophy starting with
While studying philosophy at Harvard he visited Alfred North Whitehead's lectures at Radcliffe, which were to influence his artistic philosophy starting with At Five in the Afternoon. He used large calligraphy for the painting Africa and dabbled in the style that would make him famous in "Indian Summer, #2," fully adapting that technique for the Open series. That same color-field method would inspire his wife to paint This Morning's Weather and Mountains and Sea, and characterized his most famous work, a cycle he described as the "black of death contrasted with the dazzle of a Matisse-like sunlight." FTP, name this husband of Helen Frankenthaler who created the 150-painting series Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
While studying philosophy at Harvard he visited Alfred North Whitehead's lectures at Radcliffe, which were to influence his artistic philosophy starting with
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