color-field

noun

col·​or-field ˈkə-lər-ˌfēld 

often attributive

: abstract painting in which color is emphasized and form and surface are correspondingly de-emphasized

Examples of color-field in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Willem de Looper Many color-field abstractionists have rejected the notion that their pictures look like landscapes, but sometimes the resemblance is hard to deny. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024

Helen Frankenthaler is best known for her soak-stain paintings—raw canvases saturated with washes of paint that helped birth the color-field movement. — Carol Kino, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for color-field

• battlefield
• unconcealed
• unrepealed
• unrevealed
• afield
• airfield
• annealed
• appealed
• brownfield
• coalfield
• concealed
• congealed