what techniques did frida kahlo use in her paintings?
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 She painted throughout her life , on paper , canvas and ceramic , and her output is estimated at over 2 @,@ 000 pieces . Her usual medium was scenery and landscape , but she also painted portraits and still lifes . Vorres wrote , 

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 Benefitting from the advent of postcards , Mary Willumsen ( 1884 – 1961 ) photographed women in scanty clothing or nude at the Helgoland beach facility in Copenhagen . Between 1916 and 1920 , she took many such photographs which she sold at a nearby kiosk . The operation was discontinued when the police began to take an interest . Many of the compositions are now considered to have considerable artistic merit . 

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 In her sixties she devoted a decade of work to an extensive series of cetacean studies , Encounters with Whales . In his essay Encounters and Recollections in the Art of Barbara Howard and Richard Outram , the poet Jeffery Donaldson writes : " For the most part , these are portraits of the mammals in something like their private element . Their appearances are brief , ecstatic revelations , fortuitous glimpses , sudden soundings . They seem to break forth abruptly from their solitude and then slip away as quickly again . " These enormous canvases , some as large as 16 feet ( 4 @.@ 9 m ) across , have never been publicly exhibited . 

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 Escher 's artistic expression was created from images in his mind , rather than directly from observations and travels to other countries . His interest in the multiple levels of reality in art is seen in works such as Drawing Hands ( 1948 ) , where two hands are shown , each drawing the other . The critic Steven Poole commented that 

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 Contemporary painters are also inspired by El Greco 's art . Kysa Johnson used El Greco 's paintings of the Immaculate Conception as the compositional framework for some of her works , and the master 's anatomical distortions are somewhat reflected in Fritz Chesnut 's portraits . 
