It's been reported that the artist Hedda Sterne has died at the age of 100 (coincidentally the same age as Dorothea Tanning, still living). Hedda was considered part of the Abstract Expressionists (although she said that she was uncommitted to any art group or label, and that she painted free of outside influence). Although I'm certain that I've encountered her paintings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I have not been much familiar at all with Sterne. Exploring her work online, I would say that she had a persistent type of inventiveness which we saw in the Expressionist Paul Klee. As I mentioned before about Klee, he had this remarkable ability to reinvent his artwork, while still retaining enough of his own identity so that his work is recognizable as belonging to him. To me, this helped make him a master artist. As I gain more familiarity with Sterne, I wonder if this same characteristic could seen in her work (my initial impression is that her styles do vary more widely than Klee's).
An article on Hedda Sterne's passing can be viewed here.
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