Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective 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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Examples
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Noland and Louis wasted little time adapting Frankenthaler's stain painting technique to their own purposes, and in this way became leaders of what became known as color-field painting.
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Noland and Louis wasted little time adapting Frankenthaler's stain painting technique to their own purposes, and in this way became leaders of what became known as color-field painting.
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Greenberg played a significant role in the ascendancy of color-field: he hailed it as the most important art of the 1960s, and his disciple Michael Fried declared that it was no less than the discovery "in which painting itself broke through to its future."
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Instead, in spite of the rhetorical efforts of Greenberg and Fried, in the early 1960s Pop Art quickly displaced color-field abstraction as the dominant art of its time.
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Frankenthaler's key role in the development of color-field painting is recognized in the New York Times' headline describing her as "Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement."
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Greenberg played a significant role in the ascendancy of color-field: he hailed it as the most important art of the 1960s, and his disciple Michael Fried declared that it was no less than the discovery "in which painting itself broke through to its future."
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Her place in art history would be much greater than it is in fact had color-field abstraction genuinely become the painting of the future.
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Her place in art history would be much greater than it is in fact had color-field abstraction genuinely become the painting of the future.
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Importance in art is a function of influence, and Frankenthaler's place as the inspiration for of color-field abstraction is secure: as McNay wrote last week, it was "the next big thing in American painting."
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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Frankenthaler's key role in the development of color-field painting is recognized in the New York Times' headline describing her as "Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement."
David Galenson: Helen Frankenthaler as a One-Hit Wonder David Galenson 2012
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