# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn_mrXihN32
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045567-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/ffed4944f0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-09-21T15:50:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction
Kenneth Noland (1924 - 2010) was an American painter and active in modernist movements during the mid-twentieth century including hard-edge abstraction and color field painting. He was a key member of the Washington Color School - a group of artists that concentrated on color field painting, which was a non-representational style that involved covering canvases with large areas of solid paint as a way to investigate color. Noland adopted a few signature subjects like targets, chevrons, stripes, and shaped canvases. The minimalist works sought to represent pure color and embody an objectivism devoid of emotional content. Dedicated to representing painting as painting, as in its physical materiality and visuality, Noland led an in-depth exploration of the interaction between colors and our optical reception of the canvas itself. He said:“I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.” His shaped canvases, for example, are asymmetrical paintings that give the edge of the work equal compositional importance as the center. Similarly, Noland’s target paintings, for which he is best known, highlight the canvas’ corners through the negative space that the circle shape creates on the rectangular frame. The distinct colors of the concentric circles bring attention to the precise shape and behavior of each curved line. Examining the relationship between complementary and contrasting hues with passionate absorption lead the canvases to represent nothing other than painting itself. “...the representation I am interested in is of those things that only the eye can touch,” he said. 
#KennethNoland 
Image: Courtesy of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, 1968.

## Stats

- **Views:** 0
- **Likes:** 727
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 5

## Tags

kennethnoland, artistinaction

---
Copyright (c) Gondola