One more point I want to make about Feeley's paint — he used ship and deck enamel in commercial colors, which is not what artists associated with Color
Field painting were using.
Not exact matches
The
fields used to illustrate the theme
are those of health care and civil nuclear power, the former to
paint a general picture of the hierarchy of uncertainty, and the latter to show the full range of relationships between governments and their advisers in a series of specific examples.
Accumulation of dirt, growth of mnold, even flaking of
paint,
is naturally occurring over the life cycle of some 15 years that the product
is used in the
field.
Those improvements could
be used by the entire community, McNeely added, «and there would probably
be a little money left to
paint ram [the school mascot] paw prints on the sidewalks that lead to the gym and ball
fields.»
Although there
are five generations of M3s to choose from here today, we quickly filter through to the brand - new GTS, which
is painted fire orange — the same color
used by the long - defunct Jagermeister racing team that
fielded all kinds of fast BMWs from the 2002 to the 3.2 CSL.
If the artist
is using geometry to construct a
painting, like so many since the early 1960s, it feels more like doing math than if the artist shows a square as an image floating in a
field, like a character in a graphic novel.
Deprived of the human figure, his aim
was to remove any obstacle between the
painting and the viewer,
using the shimmering color to prepossess the one's visual
field.
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.
In the 1940s and 1950s the main groups within the Abstract expressionism
were the «Gesture Painters» and the «Color -
Field Painters», who experimented with new techniques for applying
paint: dripping, pouring, throwing, squirting, squeegeeing, and spattering, and with the
use of unconventional tools, such as wall paper brushes, sticks, and trowels.
Just before that I
was making combine pieces
using wood and stone in relationship to a white
painted field.
Smaller, juicier
paintings such as «Goldenrods» and «
Field of Wildflowers» see Katz
using motifs from nature to experiment with the «all - over» approach to composition, whereby no one part of the composition
is allowed to prevail over the others.
Greenberg, art critic Michael Fried, and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works — his drip
paintings — read as vast
fields of built - up linear elements often reading as vast complexes of similar valued
paint skeins that read as all over
fields of color and drawing, and
are related to the mural - sized late Monets that
are constructed of many passages of close valued brushed and scumbled marks that also read as close valued
fields of color and drawing that Monet
used in building his picture surfaces.
Another interesting comparison to
be drawn
is between the Dan Christensen
painting of 1968 Serpens, and the 1969
painting of mine Eternal Circle, both
paintings exhibit an expansive and high spirited
use of drawing in color across huge
fields sprayed into the surface by Christensen and poured thick on top of the surface in my case.
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.
By spraying
paint, rather then by brushing, the effects
are like a photographer's
use of depth of
field.
I
used to work in several
fields and the last one
was stained glass and it came out of
painting with light.
The
fields and edges have
been used to beautiful compositional effect in the 25
paintings included in the exhibition.
Described as «Color
Field painting» by critic Clement Greenberg in 1955 — a term that stuck — it
is a style characterized by significant open space and an expressive
use of color.
A more recent affinity
is the similarity to Gerhardt Richter's squeegee
paintings, in which he obliterates his initial lively color
fields using custom tools.
Now, for her new show, she
's tackled the
field of
painting for the first time, creating elegant wall - mounted abstractions — she calls them «drawings» — by embedding tens of thousands of nickel - headed steel pins in Gatorboard, a polystyrene material often
used for mounting prints.
Leo Steinberg
uses the term postmodernism in 1969 to describe Rauschenberg's «flatbed» picture plane, containing a range of cultural images and artifacts that had not
been compatible with the pictorial
field of premodernist and modernist
painting.
Dan Christensen
was an American abstract painter best known for his unfettered
use of color in various styles, including Color
Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction...
Perhaps there
are painters who
are only concerned with
painting who might fall into the traps mentioned above, but there
are others whose concerns have to do with the present
field of art and
use the medium accordingly.
His
use of colour, form and material as elements in a compositional lexicon, as well as the stained or dyed fabrics which
are his principal medium, declare the origin of his practice in the investigation of
painting in an expanded
field, while the way his compositions occupy and transform space
are evidence of their sculptural nature.
Almost instantaneously, there
was a realization that Schnabel and Salle's work
was coming out of Color
Field painting — they
used stained canvases, but they placed images on top.
NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical
use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later
be termed Color
Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn., her nephew said.
Fontana will
be represented by a focused survey of his nearly five - decade career, spanning his earliest Spatial Concepts, in which small canvases evoke immense galaxies through swirling
fields of
paint subtly embedded with small stones and broken glass, to his famous Attessi, or cuts, in which the artist has
used a sharp knife to literally slice through the canvas surface into another space.
The mystical orange
field reminded me of the pulsing tone
used by Francis Bacon in his
paintings of the 1980s, while the full moon and chalky white of the conch shell below, separated by a gap that reads like it
is miles wide,
are more like the delicate denizens of a landscape by Yves Tanguy.
In the exhibition «Ground», James Hyde
uses the flat
field of
painting as a topological arena that ties together the physical substance of
painting and the ground on which it
is laid, extracting spatial dimensions and new meanings from this relationship.
The curved forms and right angles
used in these
paintings were likely derived from the shape of a baseball
field diamond.
Blue Chauffeur (1948), the first
painting in this series,
is made up of three distinct
fields of color that order the composition: white, red, and blue — the latter of which
was frequently
used by Wróblewski to denote death.
When he started to
paint again in the mid-1940s, Newman sought a new style of mystical abstraction, and it
was at this time that he made his first works
using his signature vertical elements, or «zips,» to punctuate the single - hued
fields of his canvases.
In light of recent controversies over the
use or absence of Black bodies in relation to abstract
painting (most notably the controversy of the Dana Schutz
painting at New York's Whitney museum), and the ahistorical suspicion of abstraction as a form of practice that manifest in some of the discourse, it
is important that Black artists» role as innovators in the
field of abstraction
is given due significance here through the works of Whitten, Bowling, and others.
NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical
use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later
be termed Color
Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut, her nephew said.
With the exception of a small, sketchy canvas
painted in 1946, the year before Newman's breakthrough to color -
field abstraction, the Menil's Newmans
are all vertical and
use mostly somber colors.
Using a method that involves dripping and pouring
paint as well as often stitching and adhering fragments and strips from earlier
paintings onto larger canvases, Bowling creates works in the Color
Field idiom that
are noted for their optical and surface complexities.
Stella
is the artist who launched 10,000 careers; artists as varied as Peter Halley, Sarah Morris, Ugo Rondinone, Matthew Ritchie, and Thomas Scheibitz, who have
used Stella's structures, compositional strategies, and specific colors, to Isa Genzken, Mark Grotjahn, Jessica Stockholder, Katharina Grosse, Steven Parrino, and countless others who've followed Stella into the expanded
fields of
painting.
Bowling, the Guyanese - born British painter,
is widely celebrated for his contributions to the
field of abstraction and his advocacy of black artists internationally, created a number of
paintings in the 1970s characterized by his
use of world maps as organizational tools to explore color as its own subject — a recurring theme in his work.
In 1967 - 68 an important shift took place in King's work, with the first of the Baggot Street
paintings, in which figurative elements
are replaced by plain
fields of colour, forms
are rendered geometrically and light
is represented through the
use of a single line.
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964 — 1977
is the first exhibition to explore how artists of this era
used photography as a hybrid image
field that navigated among
painting and sculpture, film, and book arts as well as between fine art and the mass media.
George Chaplin
is an American artist, known for his color
field paintings and
use of spectral opposites in his supremely atmospheric body of work.
Dan Christensen
was an American artist notable for his unfettered
use of color in styles such as Color
Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction.
Since the late 1980s, David Thomas has
been immersed in producing color
field and later monochromatic work
using an array of different media, including
painting, photography, sculpture, and installation.
Bush, a Canadian artist,
is associated with Color
Field painting in America because he
used color in direct relationship to form, and because he felt connected to formalist artists and critics who frequently discussed these ideas on a passionate level of discourse.
Edwin Parker Cy Twombly Jr.
was a legendary and highly influential American painter, widely known for his large - scale, freely scribbled and graffiti - like works, so called gray
paintings, he
used to
paint on solid
fields of gray color.
In its formal treatment, takes on the appearance of a futuristic color
fields abstract expressionism where traditional
painting has
been replaced by spray, which reminds us of the technique
used in
painting street graffiti, positioning the workpiece between the high and low culture.
In Kristin Baker's work, previously described as «dystopian Colour
Field painting», the contours
are composed more deliberately
using taped outlines and broad washes of luminous colour, onto which gestural passages and marks
are then spontaneously added.
In 1996, I organized the exhibition «
Painting into Photography / Photography into Painting» for MOCA, that focused on how contemporary artists were using photography to expand the field of painting conceptually and to bring new relevance to the act of p
Painting into Photography / Photography into
Painting» for MOCA, that focused on how contemporary artists were using photography to expand the field of painting conceptually and to bring new relevance to the act of p
Painting» for MOCA, that focused on how contemporary artists
were using photography to expand the
field of
painting conceptually and to bring new relevance to the act of p
painting conceptually and to bring new relevance to the act of
paintingpainting.
This technique, known as «soak stain»
was used by Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), and others; and
was adopted by other artists notably Morris Louis (1912 — 1962), and Kenneth Noland (1924 — 2010), and launched the second generation of the Color
Field school of
painting.
Marjorie Grigonis calls her collection Present Tense, Kristine Flannery «
s exhibit
is called The Multitudes; Grigonis» mixed media and
paintings uses mark - making and color
fields with emotive color and Flannery'
s action
paintings exude energy.