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Kenneth Noland (1924-2010) was an American painter and a leading figure of the color field movement. He is known for his abstract paintings using circles, chevrons, stripes, and shaped canvases, and for his influence on the Washington Color School.
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Jan 1, 1985 · Kenneth Noland: Paintings of the 1960's: Chevrons and Stripes [Emmerich, André] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Kenneth Noland: Paintings of the 1960's: Chevrons and Stripes
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Noland was part of a group of painters that described their paintings as Color Field work, which was later defined as Post-Painterly Abstraction. Noland's interest in pure color led him to create controlled, geometric abstract paintings, using stripes, chevrons, and target shapes of colors.
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Kenneth Noland's Color Field painting, which was categorized by Clement Greenberg as belonging to the "Post-Painterly Abstraction" movement, was some of the most focused and consistent art produced in mid-20th-century America. After studying under such artists as Ilya Bolotowsky and Josef Albers and working alongside fellow second-generation Color ...
Noland's concentric circles were not targets, the diagonals of his chevrons did not indicate receding space, and his broad horizontal stripes were decidedly not literal horizons. Each was solely a...Noland applied Josef Albers's theory of "the interaction of colors" to his own compositions, which explore the relationships between contrasting or complementary colors; painted in thin yet opaque...As a member of the Color Field contingent that practiced hard-edge abstraction, Noland was interested in removing all texture, gesture, and emotional content from his paintings. He even executed so...Childhood
Kenneth Noland was born on April 10, 1924 in Asheville, North Carolina, one of five sons of Harry Caswell Noland and Bessie Noland. Noland's father was a physician; Noland later described him as a "Sunday painter," an amateur artist who painted in his spare time. Having access to his father's brushes, paints, and canvases, the young Noland played and experimented with these materials, which instilled in him a love of painting and the visual arts. Another early influence was an exhibition of M...
Early Training
At Black Mountain College, Ilya Bolotowsky introduced Noland to the Neo-Plasticism and geometric abstraction of Piet Mondrian, while Bauhaus artist Josef Albers acquainted him with the work of Paul Klee. Noland paid close attention to Klee's subtle nuances of color combined with bold contrasts of positive and negative space, which eventually informed Noland's own art. In later years Noland credited Albers as the most influential of all his former instructors, particularly in his teachings on...
Mature Period
In the early 1960s, Noland's exploration of color relationships grew increasingly bold and ambitious. In his earlier, less refined Targetpaintings, heavier color forms had been placed against a white or off-white backdrop. By 1962 Noland began to experiment with colored backdrops and cleaner edges. He also began making the innermost circles, rather than the outer layers, the visual focal point of the composition. By 1963 Noland had concluded that he had exhausted the possibilities of his "cir...
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- April 10, 1924
- Asheville, North Carolina
- January 5, 2010
VG- (May be ex-lib., label and ink stamp at rear cover; Some light scuffing or aging to wraps.). Item #141993 Issued in conjunction with a 1985 exhibition of these works by American abstract painter Kenneth Noland (1924-2010).
Horizontal Stripes (III-27) from the series Horizontal Stripes. 1978. Paperwork, molded and dyed in color with paint additions, couched. irreg sheet 50 x 33 9/16" (127.1 x 85.2 cm). Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford, New York.
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New Day is one of a series of horizontal stripe paintings that Kenneth Noland began in 1967. Prior to this series of works, Noland applied color bands in various geometric motifs—including concentric circles and chevrons—on square canvases.
