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'''Color Field painting''' is a style of abstract painting that emerged in [[New York City]] during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European [[modernism]] and closely related to [[Abstract Expressionism]], while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists. Color Field painting is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid [[color]] spread across or stained into the canvas; creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favour of an overall consistency of form and process.