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
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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.
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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
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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
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“Color-field.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/color-field. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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