What is a color field?

Color Field Painting, an abstract art movement, was part of the New York School of Art, which developed in the US in the 40s and 50s of the 20th century. This type of painting consisted of wide areas of color and questioned the perception and ideas of the art of viewers. Members of New York School of Art felt that abstract art, especially art that did not draw anything in the natural world was the best way to express deep truths and emotions.

Colored field artists were members of an innovative group of artists. Together with other artists in New York School, they found their way to New York from Europe and various parts of the US and were responsible for the transition of the Center for the Art World from Paris to New York in the 1950s. These artists developed a new philosophy of art based on design and composition.

Artists who practiced coloring field painting focused their creative energy on color and shape without any reference to objects in the real world. Knvlastial for the application of large, solid fields of paint on their canvas, builtEven different colors to explore their effect on human perception and, according to the philosophy of New York School, expressed deep universal truths. Sometimes they would seem to vibrate the colors of the color fields.

One of the first artists to be characterized as a painter of the colorful field was Mark Rothko. Rothko, originally a figurative painter, dissatisfied with the national art and began to paint large, gloomy rectangles in distinctive colors. He believed that the color had the power to convey every human emotions. Another artist, Barnett Newman, painted the entire canvases in one color and added vertical lines he called "ZIPS". These zippers seem to move between the foreground and the canvas background based on their color and location.

Robert Motherwell had a more colorful field to paint. Dark dark shapes monopolized the foreground of his paintings. Ad reinhardt, on the other hand, bypassed the use of shape in their paintings completely and preferHe painted the entire canvas in one flat color.

Paintka colored field as other types of painting in New York was intended to bounce deep universal truths about the nature of existence. Some critics of art attributed the mythical and supernatural consequences for the art of the color field. The huge size of some colorful fields, some up to 18 feet (about 5.5 meters) added to the great presence and feeling of atmosphere that some of these works created.