Field / Structure
This project looks at two paintings that use color as a structuring principles. While Rothko's No. 5/No. 22 demonstrates a layered fields of yellow, red, and orange blurring into one another, Noland's New Day shapes color into horizontal bands that stretch across the canvas.
No. 5/No. 22
Mark Rothko
Rothko organizes the canvas through horizontal fields with their softened edges used to make the color feel like a suspended atmospheric space.
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Kenneth Noland
Noland's work is shaped around a field of horizontal bands using color as the key subject, carrying the eye back and forth across a surface.
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