Post-painterly abstraction

Main articles: Post-painterly abstraction, Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Arte Povera, Process Art, and Western painting ...

Post-painterly Abstraction.
Term devised as an exhibition title in 1964 by the critic Clement Greenberg to describe a new trend in American abstract painting that emerged in reaction to Abstract Expressionism.

Formalism (art)
Post-painterly abstraction
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How does Colorfield Painting relate to Post-Painterly Abstraction?
The ubiquitous Clement Greenberg coined the term "post-painterly abstraction" and applied it to Hard-Edged Abstraction and Colorfield Painting.

Later, Abstract Expressionism spawned a number of individual styles under the umbrella of Post-painterly abstraction, an anti-gesturalist trend.

The Hard-edge painting style is related to Geometric abstraction, Post-painterly Abstraction, and Color Field painting.

It is characterized by rich solid colors, neat surfaces and a collection of multiple forms on the canvas. It is often associated with Geometric Abstraction, Post-Painterly Abstraction and Color Field Painting.

and artwriters of the 1960s and early 1970s agreed that the essential characteristic of painting was its flatness, a point of view especially formulated by the critic Clement Greenberg (American, 1909-). This led to post-painterly abstraction on the ...

He titled it Post-Painterly Abstraction, a term often also used to describe the work of the 1960 generation and their successors.

See also: Painterly, Painting, Abstraction, Expression, Expressionism