Color field painting assumes large areas of a single color. Newman's painting has a large area of red color. For more information, please refer to the resources in subunit 7.2 of the course.
Attribution:
Anahit Ter-Stepanian, PhD; Rebecca Butterfield, PhD. Art History ARTH209 20th Century Art. (The Saylor Academy 2014), http://www.saylor.org/courses/arth209/ (Accessed 14 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND