Editing Clyfford Still (section)

==Paintings==
[[File:Still 1957 D1.jpg|thumb|Clyfford Still, ''1957-D No. 1'', 1957, oil on canvas, 113 × 159 in, [[Albright–Knox Art Gallery]], Buffalo, New York]]
Having developed his signature style in San Francisco between 1946 and 1950 while teaching at the California School of Fine Arts, Still is considered one of the foremost [[Color Field]] painters – his non-figurative paintings are non-objective, and largely concerned with juxtaposing different colors and surfaces in a variety of formations. Unlike [[Mark Rothko]] or [[Barnett Newman]], who organized their colors in a relatively simple way (Rothko in the form of nebulous rectangles, Newman in thin lines on vast fields of color), Still's arrangements are less regular. In fact, he was one of the few painters who combined practices of  [[Color field|Color Field]] paintings with that of Gestural, [[Action painting|Action Paintings]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Whiting|first=C.|title=Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s|publisher=University of California Press|year=2008|location=United Kingdom|pages=34|language=English}}</ref> His jagged flashes of color give the impression that one layer of color has been "torn" off the painting, revealing the colors underneath. Another point of departure with Newman and Rothko is the way the paint is laid on the canvas; while Rothko and Newman used fairly flat colors and relatively thin paint, Still uses a thick [[impasto]], causing subtle variety and shades that shimmer across the painting surfaces. His large mature works recall natural forms and natural phenomena at their most intense and mysterious; ancient stalagmites, caverns, foliage, seen both in darkness and in light lend poetic richness and depth to his work. By 1947, he had begun working in the format that he would intensify and refine throughout the rest of his career – a large-scale color field applied with palette knives.<ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/4008 Clyfford Still, ''1948'' (1948)] Guggenheim Collection.</ref> Among Still's well known paintings is ''1957-D No. 1,'' 1957 (right), which is mainly black and yellow with patches of white and a small amount of red. These four colors, and variations on them (purples, dark blues) are predominant in his work, although there is a tendency for his paintings to use darker shades.