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Kenneth Noland

 
NOLAND Kenneth, born 1924 Asheville (NC) -
American painter.

(a must to see and read is Terry Fenton's profound and massive website about Kenneth Noland: 'APPRECIATING NOLAND')

 
  1946-48 Studied at Black Mountain College in Beria (NC).
 
  1948/49 Studied under Ossip Zadkine in Paris.
 
  until 56 Taught at various institutes in Washington, including the Institue of
Contemporary Art and the Catholic University.
 
  1968 Participation in documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany.
 
  1977 Made a member of the American Academy and Institute of Art and Letters.
 
  1985 Became Milton Avery Professor at Bad College, Annadale-on-Hudson (NY). Worked with the architect I.M.Pei on the design of the Wiesner Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 
  1986/87 Guest-artist at the Pratt Institute in New York in the departments of computer and video art.
 
  1992 Participation in documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany.  
 
Noland's works are representative of Hard-Edge- and Minimal Art. Along with Morris Louis he developed Color Field Painting with thinned paints. At first he worked with disk-like color fields, then gradually began to use horizontally laid color bands in soft, harmonious tones. In the mid-80s, he became involved in computer arts.

 


image: kenneth nolan ' provence'

'Provence', 1960, acrylic on canvas,
91 x 91 cm (36 x 86 ")




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