Helen Frankenthaler: Composing with Color: Paintings 1962–1963 Olivier Berggruen and Pirelli HangarBicocca

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which featured a robot programmed to paint geometric shapes whenever it detected movement within the exhibition space

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Helen Frankenthaler: Composing with Color: Paintings 1962–1963 Olivier Berggruen and Pirelli HangarBicoccaThis book was published on the occasion of Helen Frankenthaler: Composing with Color: Paintings 19621963 at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. Organized by Gagosian in collaboration with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the exhibition explored a brief but critical period when Frankenthaler made paintings emphasizing color over line as she moved toward the total color image (a phrase coined by critic B. H. Friedman) that would become the