End of the Line | Minimal Yellow post On a Corner |
M odern art movements can be measured in terms of the ideas they represent, often escorted with assertions and manifestos. Today's image could fit into the “color field” movement of the 1960's, meant to reinvigorate art through the minimalistic use of pure color within what appears to be flattened space. Color-field artists moved toward a more aloof and strictly intellectual aesthetic expressed in the lyrical or atmospheric effects of color spans. In their works they addressed fundamental formal elements of abstract art through economy of means coupled with a maximization of effect.
“The progression of a painter's work as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity.. toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea.. and the idea and the observer.. To achieve this clarity is inevitably to be understood.” - Mark Rothko
