Vivian Springford - Color Field Painting

 

 Vivian Springford (1913 - 2003) was an American painter, affiliated with the Abstract Expressionism and Color Field movements of New York City in the 1950s to 1970s.
 In the late 1960s, Springford forged a new artistic direction that positioned her alongside Color Field artists such as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. Springford developed a stain technique of centrifugal acrylic washes, which eliminated lines and allowed her to extensively explore the spectrum of color. Such technique is comparable to that of Kenneth Noland, who described himself as “a one-shot painter.”Springford primed her canvases with a thin white layer that was porous enough to absorb paint. She then poured an emulsion of diluted acrylic paint onto the wet canvas and used brushes and other devices, possibly a turntable, to achieve complex layers of color expansion. She experimented with intricate layering by controlling the amount of solvent in the pigment: thinner paint would soak into the canvas more; thicker, less.