Focus on Mountains and Sea and analyze the Influence.
Mountains and Sea is considered an important precursor to color field painting and has been described as, "the Rosetta stone of color-field." The canvas's impact on the color field movement has been compared to the importance of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise to the Impressionist movement. Morris Louis, an abstract expressionist painter and a contemporary of Frankenthaler, described the painting as, "a bridge between Pollock and what was possible."The 1980 BBC series 100 Great Paintings featured Mountains and Sea.
The painting is on extended loan to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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