Due to the rapid revolution of the plates, together with a systematical range of circles the prints contain an irregularly
spreading field of paint, as though the artist's sharp sensitivity is being diffused from within the picture plane to the outside world.
Not exact matches
David Einstein was one
of the seminal figures responsible for the
spread of Color
Field painting to California in the 1960s and later.
Often associated with Abstract Expressionism, color
field painting is characterized by flat areas
of color
spread across the picture plane.
As you may already know, Helen Frankenthaler was a pioneer
of another technique called Color
Fielding — a form
of non-objective
painting, that allowed for thinned - out oil or acrylic pigment to be applied, often times poured and
spread, directly onto the unprimed canvas.
Abstract and geometric principles which were applied in the pieces
of Piet Mondrian and Max Bill had a particular impact on the way in which Morellet saw the picture
field as infinite structure
spreading beyond the boundaries
of the
painting itself.
Inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, Color
Field painting is a style
of abstract
painting characterized primarily by large
fields of flat, solid color
spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas
of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
Studying the work
of American abstract expressionists such as Helen Frankenthaler, an artist who poured thinned
paint directly on larger than life - sized canvases on the floor in her Color
Field works, Olivier similarly engaged in a process
of coaxing acrylic
paint to
spread and drip in brilliantly hued pools, more characteristic in watercolor.
Thin sheets
of pale pink and blue polythene were suspended from the ceiling in a series
of hanging and knotted drapes, while beneath them a sea
of powdered plaster and
paint mixed with bath bombs was
spread across the floor, with clean edges suggesting the hard boundaries
of colour
field painting and Minimalism.
After a few years I abandoned my waiting - list - ready architectural works, stopped doing figure
paintings and still life, began
spreading my
field of vision out from the houses into the landscape.