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CREATIVE MUSINGS: ON COLOR BLOCKING

Color Field painters eschewed any indication of figuration in order to maximize the expressivity of color by using it in large fields that could engulf the observer when viewed closely.

Colored Paper Image XXII (Blue Green Yellow Orange Red)
Ellsworth Kelly, 1976–77

Canto IX
Barnett Newman, 1963–4

MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
MILDRED CLASSIQUE NOIR-NUIT
Ottagono Pumps Cammello
Ottagono Pumps Cammello
Ottagono Pumps Cammello
Ottagono Pumps Cammello
Ottagono Pumps Cammello
Ottagono Pumps Cammello
Ottagono Pumps Cammello
Ottagono Pumps Cammello

Green with Red (Vert avec rouge) from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs
Ellsworth Kelly, 1964–65

Green with Red (Vert avec rouge) from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs
Ellsworth Kelly, 1964–65

Active Object (Red/White Cube)
Willys de Castro, 1962

Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Classique Noir-Rouge
Mildred Mules Noir-Rouge
Mildred Mules Noir-Rouge
Mildred Mules Noir-Rouge
Mildred Mules Noir-Rouge
Mildred Mules Noir-Rouge
Mildred Mules Noir-Rouge
Micol Junior Blanc-Gris
Micol Junior Blanc-Gris
Micol Junior Blanc-Gris
Micol Junior Blanc-Gris
Micol Junior Blanc-Gris
Micol Junior Blanc-Gris