Mountains and Sea

painting by Frankenthaler

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In Helen Frankenthaler
…major early works, the seminal Mountains and Sea (1952), she created diaphanous color by means of thinned-down oils that she allowed to soak into the raw (unprimed) canvas. This technique, known as the stain technique, strongly contrasted with the use of impasto that characterized most Abstract Expressionist painting, and it…
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