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ArtOctober 2007 Notes on color field painting by Karen Wilkin On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles County Museum to organize an exhibition featuring a group of vital, mostly young artists who had issued a challenge to the entrenched norms of gestural Abstract Expressionism. Greenberg collaborated with the L.A. County’s curator James Elliott on a wide ranging selection that included Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, Walter Darby Bannard, Jack Bush, Gene Davis, Friedel Dzubas, Sam Francis, and their colleagues, all of whom were building their paintings with broad areas of unmodulated color, reveling in the expressive possibilities of what Greenberg called “openness and clarity.” As a nod to the Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin’s celebrated distinctions between the “linear” and the “painterly,” Greenberg titled the show “Post-Painterly Abstr ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 26 October 2007, on page 44 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/notes-on-color-field-painting-3643
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