Editing Color field (section)

=== Magna paint ===
{{Main|Magna paint}}
Magna, a special ''artist use'' [[acrylic paint]] was developed by [[Leonard Bocour]] and [[Sam Golden]] in 1947 and reformulated in 1960, specifically for Morris Louis and other stain painters of the color field movement.<ref>Henry, Walter. [http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn11/wn11-2/wn11-206.html palimpsest.stanford.edu – Technical Exchange] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012002829/http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn11/wn11-2/wn11-206.html |date=October 12, 2008 }}. [[Stanford University]], Volume 11, Number 2, May 1989, 11–14. Retrieved December 8, 2007.</ref> In Magna pigments are ground in an acrylic resin with alcohol-based [[solvent]]s.<ref>Fenton, Terry. "[http://www.sharecom.ca/noland/materials Appreciating Noland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121041610/http://www.sharecom.ca/noland/materials |date=2021-01-21 }}". Retrieved April 30th, 2007.</ref> Unlike modern water-based acrylics, Magna is [[miscible]] with [[turpentine]] or mineral spirits and dries rapidly to a matte or glossy finish. It was used extensively by [[Morris Louis]], and [[Friedel Dzubas]] and also by Pop artist [[Roy Lichtenstein]]. Magna colors are more vivid and intense than regular acrylic water-based paints. Louis used Magna to great effect in his ''Stripe Series'',<ref>[http://stage.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/artwork/Louis-Number182.htm ''Number 182'', Phillips Collection, Washington, DC., retrieved December 8, 2008]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228113522/http://stage.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/artwork/Louis-Number182.htm |date=February 28, 2009 }}</ref> where the colors are used undiluted and are poured unmixed directly from the can.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR2006111000266.html Blake Gopnik, "Morris Louis: A Painter Of a Different Stripe". ''The Washington Post'', retrieved December 8, 2008]</ref>