Color Field Painting
カラーフィールド・ペインティング / late 1940s–1960s / Style / Postwar Abstract Painting
Builds spaces of color that envelop the viewer — large continuous fields, soaked edges, few forms, long perceptual time.
Vast color fields / Soaked contours / Few forms / Immersive scale
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Not a gradient backdrop. Design how area, adjacency, edge and viewing distance change the feeling.
- Further study
- Mark Rothko / Barnett Newman / Helen Frankenthaler / Sam Gilliam