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Kenneth Noland

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Also known as Kenneth Clifton Noland

American artist (1924–2010)

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Born
1924
Works
10

Top works

  • Stella, Noland, Caro
  • Kenneth Noland, winds
  • Kenneth Noland, doors and ghosts, painted monotypes
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  • Kenneth Noland

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1924-04-10
Active to
2010-01-05

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Quotes

  • We [his art-friend & painter Morris Louis and Noland himself] were interested in Pollock but could gain no lead from him. He was too personal. But Frankenthaler showed us a way – a way to think about and use, color..
  • I think that we [= Morris Louis and Noland] realized that you didn't have to assert yourself as a personality in order to be personally expressive. We felt that we could deal solely with aesthetic issues, with the meaning of abstraction, without sacrificing individuality – or quality.
  • There are two things that go on in art. There's getting to the essential material and a design that's inherent in the use of material, and also an essential level of expressiveness, a precise way of saying something rather than a complicated way.
  • We tend to discount a lot of meaning that goes on in life that's non-verbal. Color can convey a total range of mood and expression, of one's experience in life, without having to give it descriptive or literary qualities.
  • These things [cutting, cropping and shaping] always happen in strange ways. You can say after the fact what you're doing, but, believe me, you can't project it ahead. It has to be worked through before you can recognize what it was that you were looking for. It's a search; it's not like getting a brainstorm.. .It's work, yes; it comes out of the practice of painting, the practice of your art.
  • Until Abstract Expressionism you had to have something to paint about, some kind of subject matter. Even though Kandinsky and Arthur Dove were improvising earlier, it didn't take. They had to have symbols, suggested natural images or geometry, which was something real structurally. That gave them something to paint about. What was new was the idea that something you looked at could be like something you heard.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Kenneth
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Asheville
Place of death
Port Clyde
Occupation
visual artist
Languages spoken
English language
Participant in
4. documenta
Field of work
visual arts
Conflict
World War II
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date of birth
1924-04-10
date of death
2010-01-05
cause of death
kidney cancer
manner of death
natural causes
has works in the collection
Wallraf–Richartz Museum
influenced by
Helen Frankenthaler
start of work period
1949-01-01
end of work period
1999-01-01
Sources (7)

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