1. Color Field

2. Color Field Vast expanses or “fields” of color.
Color Field painting was invariably abstract and the canvases were huge, almost mural-sized.

3. Mark Rothko
His often 8-foot high paintings consisting of two or three soft-edged, stacked rectangles.
He was interested in the relation between one color and another.

4. Mark Rothko
Large patches of color seem to hover within their color fields.
Erasing all evidence of brushstrokes, he also eliminated recognizable subject matter.

5. Series of Rothko Paintings

6. Orange, Red, Orange by Mark Rothko

7. Red, Orange, Tan and Purple by Mark Rothko

8. Blue, Orange, Red by Mark Rothko

9. Frankenthaler
Combined two sources of inspiration: Pollock’s methods & John Marin’s watercolors.
Used oil paint thinned to the consistency of watercolor

10. The Bay by Helen Frankenthaler

11. Sunset Corner by Helen Frankenthaler

12. Frankenthaler
Poured the thinned paint from coffee cans onto unprimed canvas on the floor.
Thin washes of pigment soak into the canvas rather than rest on top.

13. Morris Louis
Poured diluted acrylic paint, tilting his unprimed canvas to guide the flow into several characteristic forms:
Veils
Stripes
Florals

14. Point of Tranquility by Morris Lewis

15. Morris Louis
A Louis trademark was the “veil” painting: overlapping fans of color produced by pouring pigment down vertically placed canvases.

16. Dalet Kaf by Morris Lewis