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There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules — that is what colour invention is about.

Helen Frankenthaler

Painter · Color Field · 1928–2011

American Color Field painter whose soak-stain technique let dilute pink, sage, and sky soak into raw canvas like watercolour at scale.

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There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules — that is what colour invention is about.

American Color Field painter whose soak-stain technique let dilute pink, sage, and sky soak into raw canvas like watercolour at scale.

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