Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926), a younger painter, is known for her large organic forms,
expansive fields of color, and uniquely shaped canvases.
Unlike his cohorts, he did not adopt Frankenthaler's «staining» of unprimed canvases with poured color or employ acrylics but, like them, he considered
expansive fields of color ample content, emphasized two - dimensionality in his work and eliminated bravura brushwork.
This portrait parallels this stylistic shift as the characteristics of Ms. Fitzgerald's face subtly emerge from, or disappear into,
the expansive field of color and texture around her.
Not exact matches
A synthesis
of liquescence and
color contours,
of parts fused into a single
expansive field, Untitled III is developed much like the land - and seascapes that surrounded de Kooning on the East End
of Long Island.
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.
Images
of mountain environments are reduced to fragmented
fields of shape and
color that resemble screenprints, and require a slow reading but an
expansive awareness.
Characterized by its
expansive color field approach and cinematic scope, the large diptych Bonfire presents two seated women against a dimmed, green background, perhaps identical twins offering a Rorschach - like mirror
of one another.
Mama, There's Three Duppy on da porch reveals an investigation into the use
of negative space as a more
expansive field for visual exclamations
of color.
The simple, seemingly organic forms
of Still's painting and its bold
expansive fields of space and
color made «the rest
of us look academic» Jackson Pollock observed at the time.
Color Field (2010 - 2013), her newest floor - bound sculpture, features an expansive prism of c
Color Field (2010 - 2013), her newest floor - bound sculpture, features an
expansive prism
of colorcolor.
Often
expansive in scale, her paintings on canvas, paper, and wood primarily feature a lone figure isolated within a minimal
field of pastel
color.
This sensation
of artifact enhances the artist's method
of creation, relying on physical and natural phenomena to form these
expansive, engaging
color field paintings.