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Styles & Movements

Color Field

Artists painting in this style are usually interested in innovative ways of covering the canvas with color, and the effects produced. Color Field painters treat the canvas as a single plane. They are not interested in subject, background, or gestural brushwork. This emphasis on the flatness of the painting reinforces the idea of a painting as a two-dimensional, non-illusionist space. Well-known Color Field painters include Friedel Dzubas, Jack Bush, Larry Poons, and Morris Louis.