"The gesture today [c. 1965 in America] is surely more purely abstract than it was. There is a certain moment when one can look so pure that the result is emptiness – many readings of a work of art are eliminated and you are left with one note that may be real and pure but it’s only that, one shaft. For example, the best Mondrian's, Newman's, Noland's, or w:Louis Morris' are deep and beautiful and get better and better. But I think that many of the camp followers are empty."
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in this quote Frankenthaler criticizes the loss of the sense of 'deep' in the paintings of the followers of Color Field painting like Kelly
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Color Field - in quotes. Color Field was an American style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940's and 1950's. Many of its early proponents were among the pioneering abstract expressionists / New York School. Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid colour spread across or stained into the canvas creating areas of unbroken surf
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