The effects result in translucent shapes on the unprepared canvas are reminiscent of watercolor on paper. Although the painting is titled, Mountains and Sea, the image is not representational. There is a slight indication of a landscape, but the objects are, for the most part, unrecognizable. The thinned paint creates optical space when the paint seeps into the canvas, and stains the fibers. As Greenberg states, the ‘paint seeps into the canvas … they become a single entity’ (Varieties in Modernism, p. 194). The image abandons tangible space through the unity of paint and canvas. This technique abandons third-dimensionality and emphasizes the two-dimensional
The effects result in translucent shapes on the unprepared canvas are reminiscent of watercolor on paper. Although the painting is titled, Mountains and Sea, the image is not representational. There is a slight indication of a landscape, but the objects are, for the most part, unrecognizable. The thinned paint creates optical space when the paint seeps into the canvas, and stains the fibers. As Greenberg states, the ‘paint seeps into the canvas … they become a single entity’ (Varieties in Modernism, p. 194). The image abandons tangible space through the unity of paint and canvas. This technique abandons third-dimensionality and emphasizes the two-dimensional