These works displayed his extensive art historical study as well as
the instinctive painting processes of Abstract Expressionism.
The shifting lines and layered brushwork of these works most completely integrated the classical figurative tradition he absorbed during his earliest art studies and
the instinctive painting processes of Abstract Expressionism.
Not exact matches
As curator Michaela R. Haffner explains in the show's publication, Frankenthaler was at first reluctant to make prints; the
process was antithetical to the
instinctive and personal nature of Abstract Expressionist
painting.
Describing the
instinctive nature of his
process, he asserted that
painting instead provided a means of «measuring one's physical and emotional responses».