stained canvas - A method of painting first begun in the 1960's, consisting of the application of (liquid) paint directly to canvas by pouring or rolling, rather than with the traditional brush, ...
Colour Field painters such as Morris Louis and Mark Rothko created colour saturated and stained canvases to emphasize the flatness of the painting’s surface and express spiritual states of awareness.
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Morris Louis (1912-1962) and Kenneth Noland (b.1924), key players in the Washington Colorfield Group, took Frankenthaler's stained canvas idea and built their art upon it.
 See also: Painterly, Gesture, Gestural, Abstraction, Expression
  
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