b'Over the last decade or two, contemporary art has been the vehicle of irony, political protest, neo-figuration often ideas preselected by the marketplace as the mode de jour. Whilst art has often been political and rightly so, we have also forgotten that it can also be beautiful. Beauty became to be a word shied away from, an idea that invoked triviality or lacking in substance and as a result some of the most important American painting of the 20th Century is yet to be fully acknowledged or recognized for the groundbreaking ideas it encompassedyes, Greenbergian Colour Field incorporated totally radical ideas of space and colour, no less than the now idolized Minimalism of which Colour Field is a kissing cousin.And yes, it is beautiful tooNoland, Olitski, Frankenthaler, Motherwell, Bush, Poons, Caro, and Murray each made a major contribution to this radical idea of colour and spaceit is now time to celebrate, time to enjoytime to contemplatethe sheer beauty of Colour Field.~Miriam Shiell Toronto 2021'