Greenberg favored, sequentially, Abstract Expressionism,
then Color Field painting, and later Lyrical Abstraction.
Not exact matches
Frankenthaler developed her own technique of pouring diluted
paint directly onto canvas,
then manipulating it with mops and sponges to create vivid
fields of
color.
Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative
painting,
then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his
paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in
fields of
color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of
painting.
Then again,
color -
field painting always demanded that
painting show itself as an object.
This
field of reference is
then painted over in a manner evocative of post-war Abstract Expressionism, from its sedimentary layers and floating blocks of
color to the swipes and splatters of its more animated moments.
Revisiting an idea he first employed in his late - seventies project «128 Photographs of a
Painting», he divided the work's surface into two vertical sections,
then halved those halves, and so on, he had each work printed to his desired scale, so that we might contemplate what have become remarkable horizontal, rhythmic
fields of fine lines, oscillating with vibrations of
color, the largest of which stretches over ten meters, as seen on the gallery's first floor.
In Innes's own words, «It wasn't sufficient for me to cover a
painting in a single
color and
then inscribe the
field with a line.
Gorchov,
then, does not disassemble and disperse the elements of
color -
field painting.
You
then came to New York in 1954, at a time when Abstract Expressionism was hitting its late peak and beginning to transition into
Color Field painting, Pollock was gone, and de Kooning was leaving for the Springs.
About eight years ago Keltie Ferris burst onto the New York
painting scene like a bat out of hell, that is, if you define hell as the Yale M.F.A.
painting program; back
then, her large Day - Glo -
colored canvases were perfect crosses between hazy 1970s
Color Field painting, pixilated digital space breaking up and reforming in odd - shaped plates, and painterly abstraction at the same time totally avoiding any derivative overlap with artists like Kelly Walker or Gerhard Richter.
This resulted in his minimal «line
paintings» and
then canvases filled with
fields of subtle gradations of
color created by thousands of dots.
By
then I had put the Terragni book aside and was working on my own project, which was more influenced by conceptual art, by
color field painting, by Krauss's, Michael Fried's, and Clement Greenberg's writings.
In this
painting, the
colors and textures in a
field of wild grasses are transformed into new shapes and brushstrokes, which subsequently undergo experimental development, taking on new visual meaning, in what
then becomes the
painting.
Another major breakthrough for him came with the landmark, mural - scale 1971
painting Railroad Horse (now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), featuring cascades of vibrant, poured pigment, Poons
then came to be regarded as one of the foremost
Color Field painters.
Raised in a religious household, he considers aspects of spirituality as it relates to Minimalist and
Color Field painting then applies this perspective to negotiate the constant distraction of contemporary culture.
Among the dominant trends in the Post-Painterly Abstraction are Hard - Edged Painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella who explored relationships between tightly ruled shapes and edges, in Stella's case, between the shapes depicted on the surface and the literal shape of the support and
Color - Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, who stained first Magna then water - based acrylic paints into unprimed canvas, exploring tactile and optical aspects of large, vivid fields of pure, open c
Color -
Field Painters such as Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis, who stained first Magna
then water - based acrylic
paints into unprimed canvas, exploring tactile and optical aspects of large, vivid
fields of pure, open
colorcolor.
In the early 1990's Mark studied the techniques of watercolor
painting, used these techniques in graphic and
color field paintings and then adapted these techniques to acrylics and to his interest in the EXPLOSION OF COLOR, EXPLORATION OF MOVEMENT and EXCITEMENT IN DISCOVERY which has become the essence of his
color field paintings and
then adapted these techniques to acrylics and to his interest in the EXPLOSION OF
COLOR, EXPLORATION OF MOVEMENT and EXCITEMENT IN DISCOVERY which has become the essence of his
COLOR, EXPLORATION OF MOVEMENT and EXCITEMENT IN DISCOVERY which has become the essence of his work.
The course followed a predictable, almost teleological progression, as Abstract Expressionism was succeeded by
Color Field painting, Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and... and
then, sometime in the»70s, everything fell apart.
His most recent work, which returns to the blue
color fields of the sky
paintings are panels of honeycombed fiberglass which are
then damaged, sawed through, again disrupting the Rothko - like sublime of the
painted panels and revealing their texture.
A 1995 Guggenheim Fellow whose work is in collections at, among others, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Brooklyn Museum, Zakanitch, 82, began
painting in the mid-1960s as an Abstract Expressionist and
then a
Color Field artist.
I
paint the layers, guided by the study, and
then play the opaque elements against the
color «
field» and pictorial space as it has developed.
Bannard's
paintings from 1959 to 1965 contained few forms, as little as a single band
painted around a
field of
color, and
then developed into somewhat more complex geometric forms by the mid-1960s.