Noun
color field (plural color fields)
(art) A large area of flat, solid color, characteristic of a school of modernist abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
I only identified with (Rothko's seriousness, which was absolutely to be admired. At that time, in the 1970's Barnett Newman, with his non-hierarchical structures, his non-relational Color Field painting, seemed more interesting because his work was less pretty. Gerhard Richter
Color Field painting sought to rid art of superfluous rhetoric. Source: Internet
However, by the late 1950s Color Field painting and Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko 's paintings became more in focus to the next generation. Source: Internet
Much of de Staël 's late work – in particular his thinned, and diluted oil on canvas abstract landscapes of the mid-1950s predicts Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction of the 1960s and 1970s. Source: Internet
The Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Leo Castelli Gallery, the Richard Feigen Gallery, and the Park Place Gallery were important showcases for Color Field painting, shaped canvas painting and Lyrical Abstraction in New York City during the 1960s. Source: Internet
Art critic Clement Greenberg perceived Color Field painting as related to but different from Action painting. Source: Internet