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Fire Island, 1946

Artist: Willam de Kooning (1912-1997)

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The colour field painters were concerned with color and shape in order to create peaceful and spiritual paintings with no representative subject matter. They created simple compositions with large areas of a single colour intended to produce a ’contemplative or meditational response in the viewer.

Kenneth Noland, Beginning, magna on canvas painting by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1958. Kenneth Noland working in Washington, DC., was a pioneer of the color field movement in the late 1950s.

Mark Rothko, No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm (45 in × 36 in). Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange), 1949, 85 3/8" × 65" (216.5 × 164.8 cm), oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art. An example of Rothko's late period.

Jack Bush, Big A, 1968. Jack Bush was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter, born in Toronto, Ontario in 1909. Bush became closely tied to the two movements that grew

out of the efforts of the abstract expressionists: Color Field Painting and Lyrical Abstraction.