Helen Frankenthaler

The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970, showing many of the artists before they became famous.

In the 60's media flooded the art world and gave artists new means and methods for a cultural revolution. Leading the scene of avant-garde art were innovators such as Robert Rauschenberg, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. American Art in the 1960s follows said artists and many others as they move through pop art, abstract expressionism, collage, sculpture and expressionistic cubism.