Color Field painting is a style of abstract

painting that emerged in New York City during the

1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European
modernism and closely related to Abstract
Expressionism, while many of its notable early
proponents were among the pioneering Abstract
Expressionists.
In contrast to the vigorous gestures of the action
painters, another group of artists who came to be
known as color field painters used different color
saturations (purity, vividness, intensity) to create
their desired effects. Some of their works were huge
fields of vibrant color-as in the paintings of Mark
Rothko, which is the Magenta, Black, Green on
Orange and the work of Barnett Newman which is
the Vir Heroicus Sublimis. Others took the more
intimate [pictograph approach, filling the canvas
with repeating picture fragments or symbols-as in the
works of Adolph Gottlieb which is the Forgotten
Dream and the work of Lee Krasner which is the
Abstract no. 2.
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Color Field Painting

Mark Rothko, 1949

Oil on Canvas