c 1955 - c 1968
USA
Painting that treats the canvas as a single plane and rejects illusions of depth and gestural brushwork. Usually consists of color applied in swaths that spans the entire canvas, eliminating any distinction between a subject and its background. An American movement from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, otherwise known as Post-Painterly Abstraction. A subset of the movement was known as Hard Edge Painting.
