- Louis was one of the earliest exponents of [[Colour Field Painting]] - He poured acrylic paint directly onto the canvas allowing paint to follow its own course and soak into the material. - Louis often left a large open space in the top central are of the canvas which is typically the most important part. ![[Unfurled Sigma - Morris Louis.png]] --- Louis thinned acrylic paint and poured it directly onto a large unstretched, unprimed canvas, which allowed the paint to follow its own course and soak directly into the material. As a result, the illusion of depth is eliminated and the color becomes an integral part of the surface (Upright 1985). This technique, in which paint moves freely without the interference of a brush or sticks, was a radical departure from action painting. - [[Reductionism in Art and Brain Science]] The paintings in this series are distinguished by a large open space in the top central area of the canvas. This area of the painting, which had conventionally been the most important, even to Cubist artists, was now totally blank. Our attention is immediately drawn to the top of a painting because, as Wassily Kandinsky points out, it is the region that elevates the viewer’s soul and mind. - [[Reductionism in Art and Brain Science]]