These are the words of Helen Frankenthaler, the powerfully influential artist who steered a second generation of Abstract Expressionists by building her practice on improvisation and successfully bridging the movements incongruous clades of Color Field and Action Painting. Mary, Mary is a fantastic example of the kind of work that made her such a dominant figure of the New York School giving equal weight to soft washes and blasts of bold brilliantly-hued gestures and geometries. She truly achieves her impossible aims — one cannot retrace the path of the artist — it’s as though the work arrived fully created, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus.
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