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Color field painting emphasized painting’s basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?Group of answer choicesHelen FrankenthalerMarcel DuchampJasper JohnsJackson Pollock

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Color field painting emphasized painting’s basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?Group of answer choicesHelen FrankenthalerMarcel DuchampJasper JohnsJackson Pollock

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To identify the color field painter among the given options, we need to understand the characteristics of color field painting. Color field painting focused on the fundamental aspects of painting, with artists pouring diluted paint onto unprimed canvas.

Out of the four artists mentioned, the one who fits this description is Helen Frankenthaler. She was known for her innovative technique of pouring thinned paint onto the canvas, allowing the colors to blend and create expansive fields of color. Therefore, Helen Frankenthaler is the color field painter among the given options.

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was an abstract expressionist artist who painted on huge canvases.Pollock was famous for his “drip technique” of pouring or splashing liquid paint onto a huge horizontal surface, allowing him to paint in a frenetic dancing style.Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was an abstract expressionist painter who shifted to color field painting in 1960.Color-field paintings don’t use gestural, expressive brushwork.Helen Frankenthaler worked on an ambitious scale because she wanted to reproduce the effects of nature.The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two painters. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?Jackson Pollock was famous for his “drip technique,” while Helen Frakenthaler’s work eschewed gestural, expressive brushwork. eliminatedBoth Pollock and Frankentheler painted on a massive, ambitious scale.eliminateEven though Frankentheler started out as an abstract expressionist, she later abandoned the style popularized by Jackson Pollock. eliminateThough both Pollock and Franketheler used large canvases, Pollock’s work emphasized movement while Frakenthaler’s work emphasized the effects of nature.

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