They're built of all the fieldfares I've ever known: birds in paintings, photographs, field guides, migration maps, books, conversations, articles in magazines.
The images almost read as solidly painted fields like the surfaces of Minimalist paintings.
Inspired by Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, color-field aimed for "purely optical" effects — the works were dead flat, eschewed drawn line, and referred to nothing.
Inspired by Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, color-field aimed for "purely optical" effects the works were dead flat, eschewed drawn line, and referred to nothing.
In the triptych and two related paintings, broad fields of scrumptious Creamsicle-orange are balanced by windows of sweet sky blue.
He set everything in the paintings against fields of Ben-Day dot patterns to suggest the look of cheap commercial printing, initially creating the patterns with a dog's grooming brush dipped in paint.
Now examples in this beautiful six-decade overview seem exquisitely tasteful, and so do the paintings resembling fields of dried, cracked mud and the two-color compositions of hard-edged forms on lightly textured Celotex panels.
His paintings, cryptic fields of "calligraffiti," derailed the course of art history from its abstract expressionist tracks.
Cornelia Parker, meanwhile, has steamrolled some silver cutlery, and you'll also find dark colour field paintings from Calum Innes, who spends as much time dissolving paint with turpentine as he does applying it.
Are these field paintings, or representations of a field?
