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color-field

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col·or-field (klr-fld)
adj.
A style of painting that features large flat areas of color spread across the entire canvas to suggest that they extend beyond the canvas into infinity.


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Whether or not these individuals incorporated Navajo saddle blanket design into their work is unclear; but it seems more than a coincidence that, beginning in the late 1940s, Rothko's color-field paintings have compositional qualities in common with saddle blanket designs: horizontal bands of color within a contrasted color field and sometimes large areas of color defining two halves of the canvas.
ABSTRACT INDIGENISTS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
A prototypical work by Lee is a color-field painting that sets dark Prussian blue against the natural beige of unprimed canvas.
Lee Inhyeon: Gaain Gallery by Chung, Shinyoung / Artforum International
Olitski is a total stranger to chromatic subtleties—in his earlier paintings, he proved to have an untroubled command of the stained-canvas technique of color-field painting.
Painter Jules Olitski Transported His Viewers To Virtual Outer Space by Hilton Kramer / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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