Paintings appeared as unified optical textures and increased in scale. Various shapes were united into dominant islands, zones and boundless fields of intense and homogenous color. Expanses of bright hues produced unbroken "color fields" and did not stress sequential linear detail and formal diversity. The mood is one of mystic quietude. The transition period from action painting to color-field has been termed "post-painterly abstraction". Chromatic expression reduced to monochromes and rigid geometrics. Exemplary artist. Mark Rothko (mid-C20). He combined Surrealist automatism with human, animal and plant forms into inventive biomorphs. His compositions are soft, luminous and rectangular. The boundaries between forms and grounds are deliberately hazy. His works evoke a meditative mood. Subsidiary artists: Clyfford Still, Sam Francis, Barnett Newmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt. 6 Realist Trends
Paintings appeared as unified optical textures and increased in scale. Various shapes were united into dominant islands, zones and boundless fields of intense and homogenous color. Expanses of bright hues produced unbroken "color fields" and did not stress sequential linear detail and formal diversity. The mood is one of mystic quietude. The transition period from action painting to color-field has been termed "post-painterly abstraction". Chromatic expression reduced to monochromes and rigid geometrics. Exemplary artist. Mark Rothko (mid-C20). He combined Surrealist automatism with human, animal and plant forms into inventive biomorphs. His compositions are soft, luminous and rectangular. The boundaries between forms and grounds are deliberately hazy. His works evoke a meditative mood. Subsidiary artists: Clyfford Still, Sam Francis, Barnett Newmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt. 6 Realist Trends
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