The painting shows melting clocks,insects, and a dead tree in an empty landscape.
VOA: special.2010.03.24
For all its abstractness, "Mountains and Sea" is fundamentally alandscapepainting, and nature its forms, its moods and above all its unbridled power remained a recurring metaphor in Frankenthaler's art.
Then they were at the penultimate turn, the box canyon just ahead, and the little town corralled within, its waterfall tumbling reliably at the precise center of the backdrop, alandscapepainting by a sentimental artist.
"Roaring Yellow River, " a traditional landscapepainting by the late artist Bai Gengyan, was the first work listed last year by the Tianjin Cultural Artwork Exchange.