Until Abstract Expressionism you had to have something to p… - Kenneth Noland

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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.

Kenneth Noland

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Kenneth Noland (10 April 1924 – 5 January 2010) was an American abstract painter known for his Color Field works, although in the 1950's he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960's he was considered a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement. His work was early influenced by Helen Frankenthaler and her so-called soak-method.

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Alternative Names: Kenneth Clifton Noland

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I knew what a circle could do. Both eyes focus on it. It stamps itself out, like a dot. This, in turn, causes one's vision to spread, as in a mandala in Tantric art.

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