Color Field painting

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abstract art movement art movement painting style

Color Field painting is a mid-20th-century abstract art movement characterized by large expanses of flat, solid color intended to evoke emotional or contemplative responses.

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Label	Occurrences
Color Field painting canonical	47
Color field painting	20
Color Field painters	8
Color Field	5
Color Field painting movement	2
Color Field movement	1
Color Field paintings	1
Color field painters	1
Color field painting movement	1
color field abstraction	1
color field painting	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T698025 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Color Field painting
Context triple: [Fauvism, influenced, Color Field painting]

A. Color Struck
Color Struck is a one-act play by Zora Neale Hurston that explores colorism and intraracial prejudice in the early 20th-century African American South, and is recognized as a significant dramatic work of the Harlem Renaissance.
B. Artist’s Palette
Artist’s Palette is a vividly multicolored hillside in Death Valley National Park, famed for its striking mineral-stained rock formations.
C. Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow is a 1930 primary-color grid painting by Dutch De Stijl artist Piet Mondrian, exemplifying his mature abstract style of intersecting black lines and rectangular color fields.
D. Action painting
Action painting is an abstract expressionist style of painting characterized by spontaneous, dynamic brushwork and the physical act of painting as an essential aspect of the artwork.
E. The Art of Painting
The Art of Painting is a celebrated 17th-century Dutch genre painting that showcases Johannes Vermeer’s masterful use of light, perspective, and meticulous detail in depicting an artist at work in his studio.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Color Field painting
Target entity description: Color Field painting is a mid-20th-century abstract art movement characterized by large expanses of flat, solid color intended to evoke emotional or contemplative responses.

A. Color Struck
Color Struck is a one-act play by Zora Neale Hurston that explores colorism and intraracial prejudice in the early 20th-century African American South, and is recognized as a significant dramatic work of the Harlem Renaissance.
B. Artist’s Palette
Artist’s Palette is a vividly multicolored hillside in Death Valley National Park, famed for its striking mineral-stained rock formations.
C. Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow is a 1930 primary-color grid painting by Dutch De Stijl artist Piet Mondrian, exemplifying his mature abstract style of intersecting black lines and rectangular color fields.
D. Action painting
Action painting is an abstract expressionist style of painting characterized by spontaneous, dynamic brushwork and the physical act of painting as an essential aspect of the artwork.
E. The Art of Painting
The Art of Painting is a celebrated 17th-century Dutch genre painting that showcases Johannes Vermeer’s masterful use of light, perspective, and meticulous detail in depicting an artist at work in his studio.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	abstract art movement ⓘ art movement ⓘ painting style ⓘ
aimsTo	evoke contemplative responses ⓘ evoke emotional responses ⓘ
artForm	painting ⓘ
contrastsWith	Action painting ⓘ
developedFrom	Abstract Expressionism ⓘ linked to: Abstract expressionism
emergedInPeriod	mid-20th century ⓘ
focusesOn	atmospheric color fields ⓘ color relationships ⓘ optical effects of color ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Color Field ⓘ linked to: Color Field painting Color-field painting ⓘ linked to: post-painterly abstraction
hasCharacteristic	all-over composition ⓘ emphasis on color over gesture ⓘ large-scale canvases ⓘ minimal surface detail ⓘ non-representational imagery ⓘ reduction of figuration ⓘ
hasNotablePractitioner	Adolph Gottlieb ⓘ Barnett Newman ⓘ Clyfford Still ⓘ Helen Frankenthaler ⓘ Jules Olitski ⓘ Kenneth Noland ⓘ Mark Rothko ⓘ Morris Louis ⓘ Sam Gilliam ⓘ
influencedBy	Barnett Newman ⓘ Clyfford Still ⓘ European modernism ⓘ Mark Rothko ⓘ
influencedMovement	Minimalism ⓘ Post-painterly abstraction ⓘ linked to: post-painterly abstraction
originatedInCity	New York City ⓘ
originatedInCountry	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
partOf	Abstract Expressionism ⓘ linked to: Abstract expressionism
relatedTo	Hard-edge painting ⓘ linked to: post-painterly abstraction Lyrical abstraction ⓘ linked to: post-painterly abstraction
usesElement	flat color areas ⓘ large expanses of color ⓘ solid color fields ⓘ
usesSupport	large canvas ⓘ unprimed canvas ⓘ
usesTechnique	staining ⓘ thin paint washes ⓘ unmodulated color areas ⓘ
wasPromotedBy	Clement Greenberg ⓘ

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Referenced by (88)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fauvism → influenced → Color Field painting ⓘ

Mark Rothko → movement → Color Field painting ⓘ

Mark Rothko → influenced → Color Field painters ⓘ