Lovian Museum for Modern Art/Landfield Hall - Color Field

The Landfield Hall is one of the art galleries of the Lovian Museum for Modern Art in Newhaven. The art collection consists of Lovian and Libertan Color Field paintings.

Color Field

Color Field painting is an abstract style that emerged in the 1950s after Abstract Expressionism and is largely characterized by abstract canvases painted primarily with large areas of solid color. Color Field painting initially referred to a particular type of abstract expressionism. Art critic Clement Greenberg perceived Color Field painting as related to but different from Action painting. During the early to mid-1960s Color Field painting was the term used to describe artists whose works were related to second generation abstract expressionism and to younger artists who were moving in a new direction. In 1964 Clement Greenberg curated an influential exhibition that traveled the country called Post-painterly abstraction. The exhibition expanded the definition of color field painting. Color Field painting clearly pointed toward a new direction in American painting, away from abstract expressionism. Color Field painting is related to Post-painterly abstraction.

Collection

Artwork	Creator	Origin and date	More information
	Ronnie Landfield	Lovian, 1985	Rite of spring acrylic on canvas, 79 x 112 cm.
	Ronnie Landfield	Lovian, 1971	Garden of delight acrylic on canvas, 87 x 72 cm.
	Ronnie Landfield	Lovian, 1999	The Deluge acrylic on canvas, 108 x 120 cm.
	Barnett Newman	Libertan, 2006	Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? oil on canvas, 96 x 58 cm.
	Sam Francis	Lovian, 1960	Blue Balls oil on canvas, 200 x 120 cm.
	Frank Stella	Lovian, 1967	Harran II polymer paint on canvas, 120 x 240 cm.

Reactions from the visitors

“ I really like Sam Francis' "Blue Balls" ”

Regaliorum _{(Shō Kitana)}

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“ I prefer Stella's work, the last in the row. It's simple and complex at the same time, always a good combination. ”

Dimitri

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External links

• wikipedia

	Lovian Museum for Modern Art
	Collection: Turner Hall (Romanticism) - Courbet Hall (Realism) - Monet Hall (Impressionism) - Brake Hall (Cubism) - Macke Hall (Expressionism) - Wesselman Hall (Pop Art) - Ernst Hall (Surrealism) - Landfield Hall (Color Field)
	Exhibitions: Medvedev Hall (J.M.W. Turner) - Noble Hall (René Magritte) - Washington Hall (Henri Matisse)
	Other Musea: Capitol Museum Group