Kenneth Noland in artist quotes on painting & life in the U.S.; free resource, American art history

Kenneth Noland quotes - the artist on his painting art and life in the United States (+ Color Field) - free art-resource for students, pupils and teachers of American art history

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Kenneth Noland’s quotes reveal the impact which he and his American artist-friends experienced from earlier Abstract Expressionism in America, with its typical way of free gestural and existential painting. Noland and his artistic companions of the Color Field painting wanted to break with this ‘emotional, individualistic & moral way of painting’ - once and forever!

In his artist-quotes Noland describes the characteristic way of ‘Color Field’ art-style in America. For him it started all with his important visit to the studio of woman-artist Helen Frankenthaler which inspired him to paint ‘flat’ and thin. He also expresses his dislike of the individualistic pathos of many abstract artists then in the United States.
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Some selected quotes of American artist Kenneth Noland - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’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.’ - Noland’s quote, from the interview with Diane Waldman in ‘Art in America 65’, no 3, May – June 1977

• ’I believe in working every day, and not necessarily repeating one way of working. I like to make something come out of trial and error methods – fooling around with mediums’. - quote of Noland, from the interview ‘Conversation with Karen Wilkin’, 1986-88

• ’All art that is expressive has to be illusionistic. The raw material out of which art is built is not necessarily in itself potent; you must transform it. Contours, tactility, touch, color, intervals, that’s all part of the concreteness of art. You have to make the concreteness expressive.’ - quote of Noland from the interview ‘Conversation with Karen Wilkin’, 1986-88
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  links for selected free art-resources on Kenneth Noland:

  • biographical notes on Kenneth Noland, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Noland
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Noland, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Noland#Quotes
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]