Do Now Come up with at least 4 ideas- COLORED (on the worksheet, or in a sketchbook) Remember to think about color relationships and psychology- what kind of feeling do you want to express? I will ask you to explain this at some point, so make sure you’re thinking about it! Choose 1 idea to replicate in paint Hand in thumbnail sketches at end of class!

"Tin Lizzie Green" (1964) by Jules Olitski

Color Field Paintings Color Field Painting is part of the Abstract Expressionist family of artists (a.k.a., the New York School). They are the quieter siblings, the introverts. The term Color Field Painting was coined by Clement Greenberg, referring to the painting extending off the canvas and being a field of vision.

Color Field Painters: Treat the surface of a canvas or paper as a "field" of vision, without a central focus. (Traditional painting usually organizes the surface in terms of the middle or zones of subject matter.) They emphasize the flatness of the surface. They do not refer to objects in the natural world. They reveal the artist's emotional state of mind - his or her "expression."

Mark Rothko

Color Field Painting is less about the process of making the work, Color Field Painting is about the tension created by overlapping and interacting areas of flat color. These areas of color can be amorphous or clearly geometric. This tension is the "action" or the content. It's more subtle and cerebral than Action Painting.

Often Color Field Paintings are huge canvases. If you stand close to the canvas, the colors seem to extend beyond your peripheral vision, like a lake or an ocean. These mega-size rectangles require letting your mind and eye leap right into the expanse of red, blue or green. Then you can almost feel the sensation of the colors themselves.

White Center 1950 Mark Rothko

Josef Albers

Earth & Green 1955 Mark Rothko.

Mark Dickson

Raeford Liles

Gary Hudson

Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis invented Stain Painting (allowing the liquid paint to seep into the fibers of an unprimed canvas. Their work is a specific kind of Color Field Painting. Stain Painting

Assignment: Brainstorm ideas for your own color field painting Come up with at least 4 ideas- COLORED (on the worksheet, or in a sketchbook) Remember to think about color relationships and psychology- what kind of feeling do you want to express? I will ask you to explain this at some point, so make sure you’re thinking about it! Choose 1 idea to replicate in paint