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Noland, Kenneth Biography American painter of the Abstract Expressionist school. Kenneth Noland was one of the first to use the technique of staining the canvas with thinned paints and of deploying his colours in concentric rings and parallels, shaped and proportioned in relation to the shape of the canvas. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Kenneth Noland studied art at Black Mountain College in North Carolina from 1946 to 1948. In 1948 he studied in Paris at the Zadkine School of Sculpture. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1949. During the next few years, Kenneth Noland adopted the technique of staining untreated canvas with thinned paint, a method pioneered by American painter Helen Frankenthaler. But unlike Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland preferred to frame these washes of intense color within tightly defined geometric shapes. In the mid-1950s Kenneth Noland began painting hard-edged circles centered within square canvases. Split (1959, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.), for example, focuses on the relationship between the edges of the square canvas and the image at its center. It features a square within concentric circles; the outer circle, with ragged edges of intense red, is surrounded by untreated canvas that makes the colored circles within appear to float above the surface. Kenneth Noland continued to explore the theme of concentric circles until the early 1960s, playing with the optical illusions he could create through various combinations of colors. In some works the bands of color appear to move from the center of the canvas to its edges. In 1962 Kenneth Noland moved to New York City. He subsequently adopted the simple V-shape, or chevron, as his main motif. In the late 1960s he started a series of oil paintings in which contrasting horizontal stripes appear to vibrate as they stretch across a long, rectangular canvas. In the early 1970s Kenneth Noland was one of the first painters to begin experimenting with irregularly shaped canvases, attempting to relate the shape of the canvas more closely to its content. You can buy Kenneth Noland fine art reproduction oil paintings at Galerie Dada. Just click on the 'Back' button. |
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