A prime example of young artists taking this approach is Cindy Hinant, whose row of dark photographic prints recalls
the monochrome color field paintings of Ryman or Wally Hedrick.
Not exact matches
Her work is easy to consider in art historical terms as we see direct parallels between the amorphous
monochromes of the more atmospheric photograms and Helen Frankenthaler's
color field paintings.
It presents
color - driven work in the form of
monochrome, hard - edge and
color field painting, sculpture and immersive installations.
His
monochrome aluminum sculptures reflect an aesthetic similar to his
paintings, and he continued to experiment with
color fields and abstraction long after the style fell out of vogue.
Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on
fields of
color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
paintings isolated and re-photographed against
monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.
Fujimura's Water Flames series approaches
monochrome, the
painted traces rising against
fields of identical
color as if under their own power.
Thus, we could see in Stamos's
paintings of the 1960s — with their expanses of near -
monochrome pigment and spare deployment of geometric shapes — an affinity with
color -
field canvases by Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler, and other painters championed by the formalist critic Clement Greenberg.
Hard - edge
painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism, expressionism, minimalism, lyrical abstraction, pop art, op art, abstract expressionism,
color field painting,
monochrome painting, neo-expressionism, collage, intermedia
painting, assemblage
painting, digital
painting, postmodern
painting, Neo-Dada
painting, shaped canvas
painting, environmental mural
painting, traditional figure
painting, landscape
painting, portrait
painting, are a few continuing and current directions in
painting at the beginning of the 21st century.
Digital art, hard - edge
painting, geometric abstraction, minimalism, lyrical abstraction, op art, abstract expressionism,
color field painting,
monochrome painting, assemblage, neo-Dada, shaped canvas
painting, are a few directions relating to abstraction in the second half of the 20th century.
Sometimes, as in the claggy
monochrome scarlet expanses that comprise Red
Painting, Bird, Lemur and Elephant (2016) this is directly slathered on with the artist's hands — a massive Color Field finger - p
Painting, Bird, Lemur and Elephant (2016) this is directly slathered on with the artist's hands — a massive
Color Field finger -
paintingpainting.
His
paintings exhibit various influences, from
color field and
monochrome painting to biomorphic abstractions.
In her most recent work Lou has created
monochrome woven canvases, which reference
Color Field painting and Minimalism, while focusing on the beauty and humanity revealed in the simple repetitive processes made by the human hand.
The lithograph print poster features and untitled
monochrome brown
color field painting created in 1962.
Drawing from three series of the artist's oeuvre, Black and Gray, Rome, and the New York series NY, this selected group of large - scale
paintings aims to document Charles Pollock's transition from relatively
monochrome abstractions to explorations related to
Color -
Field painting.
One way viewers might see them as such would be to compare them to the
color field paintings of Mark Rothko, or to the
monochromes of Yves Klein, interacting with them as aesthetic mediums assisting us toward a personal transcendent experience.
Color fields abound, as do works in light, gestural
paintings,
monochromes and a celebratory assortment of contemporary crossover expressions that beautifully defy simple categorization.