Colour Feild Painting - Ideas and Concepts

Colour field painting evolved in the work of Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis in the 1950s and 1960s. These artists flooded their canvases with pure pigments; subtle variations in saturation and intensity were agents of mood and aesthetic effect. In these nonrepresentational works, colour is freed from objective context and becomes the subject in itself. - nga.gov/education/American/abstract.shtm

It is this use of colour by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler I have previously looked at in my work, earlier on in my current project. Experimenting with washes of colour to explore how pure colour itself can transmit and convey emotion and mood. And learn which colour relationships work best when trying to convey specific ideas. This knowledge was then used later on in my project in conjunction with ideas about mark making and expression 

‘Canal’ (1963), Helen Frankenthaler