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Ellsworth Kelly was born in 1923 in Newburgh, New York. His family moved to New Jersey shortly after he was born. He had a passion for bird watching as a youth, which through the works of John James Audubon led him to become an artist. After serving in the Army during World War II, Kelly studied art at the School of Fine Arts in Boston. Artist he was influenced by include Piet Mondrian and Henri Matisse. [More...]
Mark Rothko was born as Marcus Rothkowitz in 1903 to a Jewish family in Daugavpils, Latvia, in what was then part of the Russian Empire. In 1913, his family emigrated to Portland, Oregon, to escape anti-semitism and to avoid having Mark and his brothers drafted into the Czarist army during World War I. He studied art at the New School of Design and the Art Students League in New York City, with Arshile Gorky and Max Weber, both also Russian Jews, among his teachers. He is generally included among the Abstract Expressionists, although he is more closely related to "color field" painters such as Morris Louis, Barnett Newman, and Kenneth Noland. [More...]
Morris Louis was born as Morris Louis Bernstein in 1912 in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in 1962. He studied art at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts. During the Great Depression, he worked in the WPA's Federal Art Project. He and Kenneth Noland were among the founders of the Color Field Painting art movement. Louis and Noland were influenced by Helen Frankenthaler's "stain paintings," which were painted on raw unprimed canvas using thin stains of fluid paint. [More...]
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Color Field Painting & Minimalism emerged in the late 1940s and 1950s, primarily in New York City. The primary progenitors of Color Field Painting were Mark Rothko, Joseph Albers, and Helen Frankenthaler. Some important Color Field painters include Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. Minimalism was an emergence from Color Field Painting, reducing flat color planes to often a single plane, or at most a few planes, of color. Important Minimalist artists include Ellsworth Kelly and Barnett Newman. Color Field Painting and Minimalism share in common the reduction of the painting to a single flat plane, without foreground or background, and an eschewing of the painterly gesturing common to much Abstract Expressionist paintings, and are sometimes grouped under a single heading, Post-Painterly Abstraction. Later related art developments are Hard-Edge Painting, best typified by Frank Stella, and Op Art, best typified by Victor Vasarely.
References & Sources
- Color Field Painting & Minimalism by Artcyclopedia.com.
- Color Field Painting & Minimalism by Wikipedia.com.
- Action Painting by ArtLex.com.
- Colour Field Painting by Tate.org.uk.
- Minimal Art (Minimalism) by ANSC 100 Image Library.
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