Jules Olitski, Larry Zox, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, Larry Poons, Alfred Jensen and Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Gene Davis are some of the 13 artist shown at the Deutsch Guggenheim in Berlin in the new Exhibition ” Color Fields “ which just started until the 10.th January.
These icons build a canon in painting, who disclaim any figurative demonstration and who are just concentrating on the power and action of couleurs.
In the fifties and sixties many young, abstract painters in America began to turn away from the hallmarks of much Abstract Expressionism, particularly its emphasis on gesture and emotive content. They moved in two general directions: a radically optical style later given the name “Color Field painting”, and an image-based style called “Pop art”, which adapted material from the mass media.While Pop art constantly referred to contemporary society through its reconfiguration of consumerist images, Color Field painting consciously distanced itself from societal referents and focused on the lyrical possibilities of color.
These matter less paintings still look fresh and expressive, years after their actual production.
With Color Fields the Deutsche Guggenheim presents a unique selection of prominent representatives of Color Field painting. Large-scale canvases featuring flat expanses of color often stained into the support characterize one of the signatures of postwar abstract painting and are exemplified by the work of such artists as Morris Louis, Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland. (Deutsch Guggenheim)
“Color Fields”,
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15,
till 10. January 2011,
daily 10am till 20pm
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