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What is matter painting?
Matter painting is a technique which blends thick impasto pains with cement, mud, sand or shells. The term first emerged in the 1950s, describing the works of Belgian and Dutch painters who focused on painting materials and the different ways paint could be used.
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Guiseppe (Brooding on the vast Abyss), 1998
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