The Washington Color School was defined in the 1950s through the 1970s by an influential group of D.C. based artists, including Kenneth Noland, Gene Davis, Morris Louis, and Paul Reed, who were central to
the Color Field movement — an abstract art movement that broke from abstract expressionism by creating formal compositions of large unmodulated areas of color in monumental scale.
The color field movement insisted on canvases that appealed only and directly to the eyes, and that avoided making any reference to things outside themselves.
Thomas Downing worked in the center of Washington, D.C.'s
color field movement of the 1960s.
Under Guston's guidance, Whitney, who felt drawn to the basic formal qualities of Abstract Expressionism, the pure chroma of
the Color Field movement, and the minimalist approach of such artists as Donald Judd, began to experiment with abstraction.
The 11 works of modern art are dominated by representatives of the Washington Color School, including Leon Berkowitz, Thomas Downing, and Howard Mehring, as well as two paintings by Jack Bush, a Canadian member of
the color field movement.
Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) was a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism and of the later
Color Field movement.
This comprehensive monograph examines the work of Alma Thomas, an important artist in
the Color Field movement and a pioneer among African - American artists working in abstraction.
Biography: Dan Christensen (1942 - 2007) was a leading figure in
the Color Field movement whose relentless experimentation with new tools and materials made him among the most ambitious abstract and gestural artists of his time.
At the same time, his work reflected the present, expressing the literalist perspective of
the Color Field movement, epitomized by the idea that the force of painting must reside in its materials.
Dan Christensen (1942 - 2007) was a leading figure in
the Color Field movement whose relentless experimentation with new tools and materials made him among the most ambitious abstract and gestural artists of his time.
Mr. Bannard (pronounced BAN - erd), whose keen critical intelligence was reflected in his many essays on art, spent more than half a century elaborating and revising the distillation of color and form that made him an important voice in the nascent
Color Field movement, sometimes called postpainterly abstraction.
Dan Christensen, Serpens, 1968 Acrylic on canvas, 112 x 173.5 inches Courtesy of Spanierman Modern, NY May 15 — August 30, 2009 For more than forty years, American artist Dan Christensen — long associated with
the Color Field movement — experimented with colors, shapes, and forms in his large - scale paintings.
For instance, there is almost a complete snub of
the Color Field movement, as Frankenthaler, Noland, Olitski, Poons, et al., are conspicuously absent.
Many of these painters were linked to
the Color Field movement by the influential critic Clement Greenberg, who was the curator of the 1964 exhibition «Post Painterly Abstraction» that helped to define Color Field painting.
As a member of several artistic groups, schools and styles, Newman could be classified as Abstract Expressionist, but his art has also been referred to
Color Field movement, Formalism, and even proto - Minimalism.
There she learned about
the Color Field movement and theory from Ben L. Summerford and Jacob Kainen.
Returning to Washington, D.C., they began to produce the major works that created
the Color Field movement in the late 1950s.
Though long associated with
the Color Field movement, Christensen's relentless experimentation with tools and techniques makes him resistant to any one label or category but does place him among this country's most ambitious abstract and gestural painters.
His paintings are associated with
the Color Field movement and Post-painterly Abstraction.
Paul Kasmin Gallery presnts a snapshot of
the Color Field movement's past and present with its latest show, dedicated to the artists Morris Louis and Landon Metz
How is the way that contemporary artists embrace Frankenthaler's legacy comparatively similar to or different from the way that the artists of the 1960s
Color Field movement responded?
Melinda Zox is the daughter of renowned American lyrical abstraction painter Larry Zox (1936 - 2006), who played an essential role in
the Color Field movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Widely recognized as an influential American post war painter, Morris Louis became an inspirational figure for other artists in
the Color Field movement in the 1960s.
[37] When in 1967 he returned to abstraction his works were parallel to movements like
the Color Field movement and Lyrical Abstraction.
Lawrence Larry Zox, born in 1937, in Des Moines, Iowa, was an American painter known for his work in
the color field movement of the 1960s.
Magna, a special artist use acrylic paint was developed by Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden in 1947 and reformulated in 1960, specifically for Morris Louis and other stain painters of
the color field movement.
The artists associated with
the Color Field movement during the 1960s were moving away from gesture and angst in favor of clear surfaces and gestalt.
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.
[27][28] When in 1967 he returned to abstraction his works were parallel to movements like
the Color Field movement and Lyrical Abstraction but he remained independent of both.
One of the reasons for the success of
the Color Field movement was the technique of staining.
Kenneth Noland, working in Washington, DC., was also a pioneer of
the color field movement in the late 1950s who used series as important formats for his paintings.
Returning to Washington, DC., they began to produce the major works that created
the color field movement in the late 1950s.
Just to cover the historical end of the spectrum, there are two big museum shows: Color as Field Field: American Painting, 1950 - 1975 at the Smithsonian, the first full show dedicated to
the color field movement (OK, so the show's not in New York, but it's full of New Yorkers); and Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today at MoMA.
Her contributions to AbEx and
Color Field movements were driven by something much more personal: a desire to explore the relationships between color and form at their most elemental level.
The reception will feature Krushenick's painting, Big Frog Mountain, and a curator from the museum will discuss the artist's work and
the color fields movement.
Not exact matches
This
movement -
field plot shows that the number of spikes in the burst (
color code) varies systematically with saccade amplitude and direction.
Pop Art
Color field, Abstract expressionist all had their hackers on trying to cash in on the
movement.
Some of the new styles and
movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington
Color School, Hard - edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and
Color Field.
Along with John Hoyland, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronald Davis, Ronnie Landfield, John Seery, Pat Lipsky, Dan Christensen [29] and several other young painters a new
movement that related to
Color Field painting began to form; eventually called Lyrical Abstraction.
However, by the beginnings of the 1960s, leadership of the
movement had shifted to the
color -
field and abstract imagist painters, whose followers in the 1960s rebelled against the irrationality of the Action painters.
With encouragement from Greenberg, Bush became closely tied to two
movements that grew out of the efforts of the abstract expressionists:
Color Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Associated with
movements as diverse as Abstract Expressionism,
Color Field painting, Minimalism, Op art, and Postmodernism, the artists featured in Rothko to Richter were at the forefront of debates about the changing priorities and imperatives of painting after World War II, each seeking to redefine abstraction for new social and cultural milieus.
The Contemporary art collection encompasses works created from 1945 to the present with strong examples of Abstract Expressionism,
Color Field painting, Pop art, Conceptual art, and recent
movements in painting, sculpture, photography, and video.
Working digitally I try to keep the work fresh and show the
movement of the brush and excitement of
color and depth of
field as inspired by natural and urban landscapes and my favorite music.
Abstract Expressionism preceded
Color Field painting, Lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, and the other
movements of the 1960s and 1970s and it influenced the later
movements that evolved.
Woodward Gallery features emerging and established artists and shows Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art,
Color Field painting, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Neo-expressionism, and Street Art among other
movements.
Embracing
movement, light, and the limits of visibility, «Invisible Reality» presents nine white cubes, standing on axis, reflecting a subtle
color field back to the viewer, culminating in a protean, ever - changing painting that is never the same work twice.
Agee doesn't worship at the temple of hard - and - fast lines between the Ashcan School, Ab - Ex,
Color Field, etc., arguing that many artists» careers bridge those eras and that an art history broken down by
movements hauls in names who wouldn't make it in otherwise.
Gueorguieva largely contains the distinct
color patterns within each separate panel, subtly stopping your eye's otherwise unimpeded
movement across the
field at the edge of each canvas.
Still & Art begins with Still's acknowledgment of Old Masters he admired (among them Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent van Gogh); progresses to his interrogation of near - contemporaries such as Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso; and concludes with epic canvases, pastels, and photographs that reveal the artist meditating on his own past production as well as the spirit of
color -
field painting, minimalism, and comparable avant - garde
movements of the 1960s and»70s.