Talk:Color Field

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Added Barnett Newman. Seemed ridiculous not to. --Bảo 21:28, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I am astonished at the inaccuracy of this article. It cites artists like Diebenkorn and Motherwell as color field artists, they most certainly were NOT. And it omits all the important artists who really WERE doing color field work, it even omits arguably the most important artist in this genre, Larry Poons. This article is incredibly inaccurate and needs to be completely gutted and rewritten from scratch, preferably by an artist who actually studied Color Field work.

[edit] Relationship

Color Field is related to Suprematism, and Abstract Expressionism...

How is it related? -->>sparkit|TALK<< 00:17, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

I think a better question is how is not related? Color Field emerged from abstract expressionism, and the relationship between, say, Malevich and the color-field painters'works is quite obvious, don't you think? --Ggbroad 19:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

71.125.251.250 - Please be a little thoughtful in your edits. I would suggest that you check out several pages here, perhaps the pages Post-Painterly Abstraction, Clement Greenberg, Abstract expressionism and various others. I thought many of your edits were not as thoughtful as they might be, I've been working on this page for many many months. The Rothko image isn't really legally allowed here. The colorfield branch of Abstract expressionism were friends with Greenberg - Rothko, Gottlieb, Still, Newman all predating post painterly abstraction. If you want to make changes lets discuss it here, Thanks, Modernist 22:41, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

To Moderisnist from 71.125.251.250 Greenburg curated a show called "post painterly abstraction" he first used the phrase in the avate gaurd and kitch. Post Painterly Abstraction is another way to describe color field because the manner of the painting ie the painterly quality is no longer important. You're thinking of post studio painting that developed after minimalism. I want to make a clear distinction between the goals of abstract expressionism and Color Field and try to understand color field painting as a distincly American art form. I spent time encorporating your ideas into my edit and do not appreciate your flat out deletion.

Clement Greenberg wrote his essay Avant-Garde and Kitsch in 1939. His exhibition Post-Painterly Abstraction was in 1964, during the mid-fifties he used the term to make a distinction within Abstract expressionism between Action painting championed by Harold Rosenberg and those painters like Newman, Gottlieb, Rothko, Still, and even Pollock who were more involved with the process then the act. Modernist 23:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)