| Artist: | Louis, Morris |
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| Title: | Alpha Lambda (Unfurled Series) | |
| Date: | 1961 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | post WWII, NY School | |
| Movement: | Color Field | |
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| Subject: abstract trails or rivers of color; example of Greenberg's Formalism (form is the content). Style: adopts Frankenthaler's "soak-stain" method; secretive about process; kept part of the canvas attached to risers and part free; pigment and surface of the canvas become one; works the peripheries of the canvas field; leaves plenty of breathing space (oxygen). Context: Greenberg's Formalism emphasizing surface and form as content; logical and systematic, unlike Frankenthaler's more intuitive process. | ||
