color field

noun

A large area of flat, solid color, characteristic of a school of modernist abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.

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Meanings

nouncolor field (plural color fields)

plural color fields

  1. artA large area of flat, solid color, characteristic of a school of modernist abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
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