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Event Dates
Jun 26, 2008 - Sep 21, 2008
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919 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: 615.744.3331
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Millennium Maxwell House Hotel - Nashville
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"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-75"
Color field painting, which emerged in the United States during the 1950s, is characterized by pouring, staining, or spraying thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast chromatic expanses that are remarkable for their luminosity and gracefulness. Paintings such as Helen Frankenthaler’s Flood (1967) exemplify these artists’ interest in exploring the emotional associations triggered by pure color relationships. Frankenthaler’s work, along with paintings by Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, and Frank Stella constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art.
Image credit: Morris Louis, Floral V, 1959-1960. Acrylic and magna on canvas, 98 3/8 x 137 13/16 in. Private collection, Denver. © 1993 Marcella Louis Brenner
upcoming events
Nov 21, 2009
Standing Stone State Park 5-Mile Run
Hilham, TN
Nov 21, 2009
FCE Holiday Bazaar
Livingston, TN
Nov 21, 2009
Jonesborough Storytellers Guild Tellabration
Jonesborough, TN
Nov 21, 2009
Arts Third Saturday
Chattanooga, TN
Nov 21, 2009 - Nov 22, 2009
Centennial Holiday Show
Franklin, TN