COLORFIELD PAINTING MINIMAL COOL HARD EDGE SERIAL AND POSTPAINTERLY ABSTRACT ART OF THE SIXTIES TO THE PRESENT Painting in the 1960s produced some of arts most lyrical and distinctive works it was termedColorfield Hard Edge Minimal and postpainterly abstraction and was linked with Pop Art Op or optical Art chromatic art kinetic abstraction wholistic art purepainting geometric abstraction ABC Art Cool Art Nongestural Painting Non Relationalism Abstract Mannerism and Abstract Sublime painting. The painters linked in this new study with Colorfield Hard Edge Minimal and PostPainterly Abstraction painting include Minimal artists such as Brice Marden Sol LeWitt Agnes Martin Ad Reinhardt and Robert Ryman Colorfield painters such as Helen Frankenthaler Kenneth Noland Sam Gilliam and Morris Louis postpainterly abstractionists such as Frank Stella David Novros Richard Diebenkorn Al Held Jo Baer and Jules Olitski and Hard Edge painters such as Ellsworth Kelly Robert Mangold Joseph Albers and Elisabeth Murray. Colorfield Minimal Hard Edge and PostPainterly Abstract painting had a distinctly American and New York flavour to it even if it was not produced in America or by US artists. In Bruce Glasers Questions to Andre and Judd Donald Judd continually stressed the point that the new Minimal art was definitely American and nonEuropean. The New World not the Old World. Time and again Judd insisted that the new art was to trying to get away from the European tradition. It suits me fine if thats all down the drain Judd said. Im totally uninterested in European art and I think its over with. Many of the Colorfield and Sixties painters have made extremely brilliantly colorful works in the 1960s then turned back to the sombre colors of grey and black in the late 1980s and 1990s. Painters such as Brice Marden Frank Stella Jasper Johns and Jules Olitski are ambiguous about saturated color they moved back and forth from monochrome greys and blacks to full color. In the lat