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Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimalist painter.
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.
Jan 5, 2010 · Most of Noland's paintings fall into one of four groups: circles (or targets), chevrons, stripes and shaped canvases. His preoccupation with the relationship of the image to the containing edge of the picture led him to a series of studies of concentric rings or bullseyes, commonly referred to as targets, which, like the one reproduced here ...
- American
- April 10, 1924
- Ashville, United States
- January 5, 2010
Kenneth Noland was an American artist renowned for his paintings in a style of post-war abstraction called Colour Field painting. This consisted of large-scale canvases with flat expanses of colour, and Noland was one of its leading figures. He was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1924.
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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Jan 5, 2010 · Post-war abstract painter Kenneth Noland (b. Asheville, 1924) died today at his home in Port Clyde, Maine. Championed by powerful critic Clement Greenberg, Noland’s rhythmic colorful...
