RIP Kenneth Noland

Post-painterly abstractionist extroardinaire and icon of Icon of American Painting Kenneth Noland is dead today. He is a personal hero of mine and i'm sure a lot of people and the meaning of the repros on my wall will change slightly today i think.

http://www.ackland.org/art/exhibitions/2008/circa_1958_breaking_ground_in_american_art/noland.jpg

Roberta Smith:

"Mr. Noland’s signature motif was a radiant target made of rings of pure color strained directly on raw canvas, with that canvas contributing a wonderful sense of breathing room between each band of color. The power of the colors, their often discordant interaction and the expanding and contracting rhythms of the bands of paint and the raw canvas, could be stunningly direct and vibrant. Mr. Noland’s work was championed by Clement Greenberg and other formalist art critics, but in the beginning it was also greatly admired by more wide-ranging critics, including Donald Judd."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQAI2-LX5I

i put him on the obit thread but i'm very fond of his stuff. RIP

I've never been especially fond of his work, though every now and again I'll see an odd one that gets my interest-- it seems like every museum has a few of his pictures.

Still, much respect, RIP.