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Color Field Painting


Color 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, Frank Stella, Jules Olitski and Helen Frankenthaler. The popularity of the concept stemmed largely from Clement Greenberg’s formalist art criticism, especially his essay ‘American-type Painting’, written in 1955 for Partisan Review, which implied that Still, Newman and Rothko had consummated a tendency in modernist painting to apply ... (view more)

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Artists Associated with Color Field Painting — 16 artists:

Jack Hamilton Bush
Friedel Dzubas
Helen Frankenthaler
Sam Jr Gilliam
Paul Jenkins
Ellsworth Kelly
Morris Louis
Barnett Benedict Newman

Kenneth Noland
Jules Olitski
Larry Poons
Mark Rothko
Theodoros Stamos
Frank Stella
Clyfford E Still
Frank Wimberly

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