Getting To The Truth Of Things With Abstraction : Helen Frankenthaler : Uniqlo Artspeaks

Alex Roediger, MoMA’s senior information coordinator, looks at Helen Frankenthaler’s "Jacob’s Ladder" (1957) with a painter’s eye, and finds that “more paint” isn't always the key to making a dramatic statement—even in Abstract Expressionism.

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