Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism,
while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering
Abstract Expressionists. Color Field painting is characterized primarily
by large fields of flat, solid color
spread across or stained into the canvas; creating areas of unbroken
surface and a flat picture plane. The movement places less emphasis on
gesture, brushstrokes and action in favour of an overall consistency of
form and process.