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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
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