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Color Field painting used greatly reduced formats, repetition, and a highly articulated and psychological use of color. LEARNING OBJECTIVE [ edit ] Differentiate Color Field painting from other contemporary abstract art such as Abstract Expressionism KEY POINTS [ edit ] Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. It was closely linked to Abstract Expressionism, Post-Painterly Abstraction, and Lyrical Abstraction. Distinct from the emotional energy and gestural surface marks and paint handling of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Color Field painting initially appeared to be cool and austere. The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favour of an overall consistency of form and process, with color itself becoming the subject matter. Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, and Morris Louis are among the many artists who used Color Field techniques in their work. Color Field painters revolutionized the way paint could be effectively applied, through use of acrylic paint and techniques such as staining and spraying. TERMS [ edit ] abstract expressionism An American genre of modern art that used improvised techniques to generate highly abstract forms. action painting A genre of modern art in which the paint is dribbled, splashed or poured onto the canvas to obtain a spontaneous and totally abstract image. lyrical abstraction A type of abstract painting related to Abstract Expressionism; in use since the 1940s. Give us feedback on this content: FULL TEXT [edit ] Color Field painting is astyle ofabstractpainting that emerged in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. It was inspired by European modernism and closely related toAbstract Expressionism, while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists. Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread Register for FREE to stop seeing ads 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 favour of an overall consistency of form and process, with color itself becoming the subject matter. Taking its example from other European modernists like Joan Miró, the Color Field movement encompasses several decades from the mid-20th century through the early 21st century. Color Field painting actually encompasses three separate but related generations of painters, commonly grouped into abstractexpressionism, post-painterly abstraction, and lyrical abstraction. Some of the artists made works in all three eras that relate to all of the three styles. The focus of attention in the world of contemporary art began to shift from Paris to New York 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 Expressionist canon—especially between Action Painting and what Greenberg termed "Post-Painterly Abstraction" (today known as Color Field). By the late 1950s and early 1960s, young artists began to break away stylistically from abstract expressionism, experimenting with new ways of handling paint and color. Moving away from gesture and angst (such as the violence and anxiety of Action painting) in favor of clear surfaces and seemingly calmer language of color, artists in Great Britain, Canada and the United States used formats of stripes, targets and simple geometric patterns. Color Field painting is related to Post-painterly abstraction,Suprematism, Abstract Expressionism, Hard-edge painting and Lyrical Abstraction. It initially referred to a particular type of abstract expressionism, especially the work of Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman , Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb and several series of paintings by Joan Miró. Color Field painting sought to rid art of superfluous rhetoric. Artists like Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland , Friedel Dzubas, Frank Stella , and others 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. Frank Stella, Harran II, 1967 During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Frank Stella was a significant figure in the emergence of Minimalism, PostPainterly Abstraction, and Color Field painting. His shaped canvases of the 1960s revolutionized abstract painting. 'Beginning', magna on canvas painting by Kenneth Noland, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1958 Color Field painting is characterized by simple geometric forms and repetitive, regulated systems. Paintings of this genre have proven to be both sensual and deeply expressive albeit in a different way from gestural Abstract expressionism. Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?, 1966, by Barnett Newman Color Field painting is characterized by simple geometric forms and repetitive, regulated systems. Paintings of this genre have proven to be both sensual and deeply expressive, albeit in a different way from gestural Abstract Expressionism. 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. Distinct from the emotional energy and gestural surface marks and paint handling of abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Color Field painting initially appeared to be cool and austere. Color Field painters eschew the individual mark in favor of large, flat, stained, and soaked areas of color, considered to be the essential nature of visual abstraction along with the actual shape of the canvas. However, Color Field painting has proven to be both sensual and deeply expressive, albeit in a different way from gestural abstract expressionism. An important distinction between Color Field painting and abstract expressionism is the paint handling. The most basic defining technique of painting is application of paint, and the Color Field painters revolutionized the way paint could be effectively applied. Water-soluble, artist-quality acrylic paints first became commercially available in the early 1960s, coinciding with the Color Field movement as these paints could would sink and hold fast into raw canvas.The most common applications were stain painting (where artists would mix and dilute their paint in buckets or coffee cans, making a fluid liquid, then pour it onto raw unprimed canvas, drawing shapes and areas as they stained); spray painting (a technique using a spray gun to create large expanses and fields of color sprayed across the canvas); and the use of stripes.