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Learn

Examine a historic artist's career and methods.

Create

Create original artwork and develop skills.

Experience

View the exhibition and explore New York City's art scene.

Helen Frankenthaler

1. Learn

Helen Frankenthaler’s career, artworks, and soak-stain technique.
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2. Abstract

Form ideas, shapes, and colors through memory abstraction exercises.

3. Draw

Create a composition using automatic gesturing methods.
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4. Paint

Put your abstraction on canvas using Frankenthaler's "soak-stain" technique.

5. Critique

Share, discuss, and interpret artwork.
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6. Experience

See more than 20 Helen Frankenthaler works on view now at Gagosian Gallery.
Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance (April 30th-July 2nd)

Hilma af Klint "The Five"

1. Learn

Learn spiritual abstraction theory and methods of Hilma's circle "The Five"
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2. Draw

Practice automatism methods.

3. Shape

Study symbolic shapes and how Theosophy is used in abstractions.

4. Color Theory

Learn how Hilma used color to communicate complex ideas.

5. Create

Practice automatism, symbolism, color theory, and spiritual abstraction.
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6. Experience

Participate in a reenactment of "The Five" sessions.
Note:
We are not presenting this reenactment as a supernatural or religious practice. We are reenacting the structure of The Five’s creative process. The activity is designed as a historically inspired creative exercise connected to Hilma af Klint’s artistic methods.

Workshops

Hilma af Klint "The Five"

Explore and exercise automatism and spiritual abstraction methods of Hilma af Klint's "The Five"
Tompkins Square Park, East Village

Helen Frankenthaler

Explore landscape abstraction theory and "soak-stain" technique of Helen Frankenthaler.

St. Mark's Place, East Village

Jackson Pollock

Explore and exercise theory and methods of Jackson Pollock.
St. Mark's Place, East Village

Der Blaue Reiter
(Blue Rider Group)

Explore theory and methods of Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and The Blue Rider.
St. Mark's Place, East Village

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