"Color as Field," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, presents wall-size pictures that are about huge gestures in color and shape. In its heyday in the 1960s and early '70s, this kind of "color field" painting was the hot commodity in the art world, right at what seemed to be the center of th... -
Drifting Through Fields of Color
"Color as Field," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, presents wall-size pictures that are about huge gestures in color and shape. In its heyday in the 1960s and early '70s, this kind of "color field" painting was the hot commodity in the art world, right at what seemed to be the center of th...-
By Blake Gopnik