Colour Field Painting

Colour Field Painting
Term originally used to describe the work from about 1950 of the Abstract Expressionist painters Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, which was characterised by large areas of a more or less flat single colour.

Colour Field Painting
Colour field painting is a form of Abstract Expressionism, created by artists concerned with the lyrical or emotional effects of large 'fields' of colour.

Colour Field Painting
A movement that grew out of Abstract Expressionism in which large stained or painted areas or "fields of colour" induce aesthetic and emotional responses.
Colour Wheel ...

Colour Field Painting - A style of painting prominent from the 1950's through the 1970's, featuring large "fields" or areas of color, meant to evoke an aesthetic or emotional response through the colour alone.

Colour field painting.
Term referring to the work of such Abstract Expressionists as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and to various subsequent American painters, including Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, ...

Colour Field Painting
Style of American abstract painting characterised by large expanses barely modulated colour, with no strong contrasts of tone or obvious focus of attention. Popular in the late 1940s to early 1950s ...

Colour Field painting...Another branch of Abstract Expressionism in which artists filled extremely canvases with bright color meant to involve the viewer psychologically.

Colour field painting: the application of colour across the entire canvas which when viewed close-to, gives the impression of being engulfed in a 'field' of colour.

^ "Colour Field Painting". Tate. Retrieved December 7, 2008
^ Harold Rosenberg. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
^ Color As Field: American Painting. New York Times.

There were two major types of abstract expressionist painting: action painting and colour field painting.

Colour field painting
School of painting, usually on a large scale, in which solid areas of colour are taken right up to the edge of the canvas, suggesting that they extend to infinity.
Constructivism ...

See also: Painting, Movement, Sculpture, Expression, Expressionism