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When
painting, Frankenthaler uses the canvas as a
vital part of the painting, bringing it into
the foreground instead of using it only as support
for the paint.
This process, called "staining," uses a watercolor-type
paint that bleeds into a cotton-based canvas,
then essentially becomes one with the canvas
to create a highly unique work of art. Unlike
most artists who cover the canvas beneath their
paints, Frankenthaler uses the canvas as a medium.
She is known to have 'invented' a style now
called color-field art by deliberately using
that technique to create huge paintings.
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