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Abstract
Color Art Paintings
Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New
York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European modernism
and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, while many of its notable
early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists. Color
Field painting is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid
color spread across or stained into the canvas; creating areas of unbroken
surface and a flat picture plane. The movement places less emphasis on
gesture, brushstrokes and action in favor of an overall consistency of form
and process.
During the late 1950s and 1960s, Color field painters emerged in Great
Britain, Canada, Washington, DC. and the West Coast of the United States
using formats of stripes, targets, simple geometric patterns and references
to landscape imagery and to nature.
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History of Color Field
Painting
The focus of attention in the world of contemporary art began to shift
from
Paris
to
New York City
after World War II
and the development of American
Abstract Expressionism.
During the late 1940s and early 1950s Clement Greenberg was the first
art critic to suggest and identify a dichotomy between differing
tendencies within the
Abstract Expressionism
canon. Taking issue with Harold Rosenberg (another important champion of
Abstract Expressionism)
who wrote of the virtues of Action Painting in his famous article
American Action Painters published in the December 1952 issue of ARTnews,
Greenberg observed another tendency toward all-over color or Color Field
in the works of several of the so-called "First Generation"
Abstract Expressionists.
By the late 1950s and early
1960s young artists began to break away stylistically from abstract
expressionism; experimenting with new ways of making pictures; and new
ways of handling paint and color. In the early 1960s several and various
new movements in abstract painting were closely related to each other,
and superficially were categorized together; although they turned out to
be profoundly different in the long run. Some of the new styles and
movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract
expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard-edge painting,
Geometric abstraction, Minimalism and Color Field.
An important distinction that made color field painting different from
abstract expression was the paint handling. The most basic fundamental
defining technique of painting is application of paint and the color field
painters revolutionized the way paint could be effectively applied.
Color Field painting sought to rid art of superfluous rhetoric. Artists
often used greatly reduced formats, with drawing essentially simplified to
repetitive and regulated systems, basic references to nature, and a highly
articulated and psychological use of color. In general these artists
eliminated overt recognizable imagery in favor of abstraction. Certain
artists quoted references to past or present art, but in general color field
painting presents abstraction as an end in itself. In pursuing this
direction of modern art, these artists wanted to present each painting as
one unified, cohesive, monolithic image often within series' of related
types.
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Abstract Artists
Albers, Josef
Braque,
Georges
Calder,
Alexander
Delaunay, Robert
Diebenkorn, Richard
Dufy, Raoul
Feininger,
Lyonel
Frankenthaler,
Helen
Gris, Juan
Hodgkin, Howard
Kandinsky,
Wassily
Klee, Paul
Malivich, Kasimir
Miro, Joan
Pollock, Jackson
Rothko, Mark
Vasarely, Victor
Abstract Expressionism
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