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Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas.
Initially associated with abstract expressionism, her career was launched in 1952 with the exhibition of Mountains and Sea. This painting (inspired by inspired by a trip to Nova Scotia) is large - measuring seven feet by ten feet - and has the effect of a watercolor, though it is painted in oils.
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US
Dec 6, 2023 · Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952, oil and charcoal on unsized, unprimed canvas, 219.4 x 297.8 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Sep 30, 2016 · Mountains and Sea, Frankenthaler. This work is a perfect example of Frankenthaler’s technique of making pictures entirely by "staining," a process in which she poured thinned paint onto raw, unprimed canvas. This method results in fields of transparent color that seem to float in space, with the weave of the canvas establishing the flatness ...
Mar 12, 2021 · Mountains and Sea, painted 20 days later, was a venture in speculative freedom, an independent journey of her own, away from known shores. Deceptively casual, to this day it wants nothing...
- Alexander Nemerov
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Feb 14, 2024 · Singulart Magazine Spotlight on... Artists • Artworks under the lens. Exploring Helen Frankenthaler’s “Mountains and Sea” 2024-02-14 / 5 minutes read. Take a walk into the suave artistic realm where Helen Frankenthaler steps forth and showcases her creative insights and inventiveness that has led to the evolution of abstract art.
After ‘Mountains and Sea’: Frankenthaler 1956–1959 | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In the fall of 1952, at the age of 23, Helen Frankenthaler made her legendary painting Mountains and Sea, the first work she created using her celebrated soak-stain technique.
