There are painters that decided that the most interesting part of a painting was the color – so they decided to make big areas of their paintings all one color. They were called Color Field painters. Sometimes they used different shades of the same color and sometimes they used a few different colors and sometimes it was just one color.
Barnett Newman was one of those Color Field artists. Most of his paintings are all one color with a few lines (that he called ‘zips’) of a different color. Sophie is pointing to the ‘zip’ in this painting. His biggest painting is 28 feet wide and 9 feet tall (that’s as tall as a wall and as wide as two rooms!) – it’s all red with a few ‘zips.’
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