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"We tend to discount a lot of meaning that goes on in life thats non-verbal. Color can convey a total range of mood and expression, of ones experience in life, without having to give it descriptive or literary qualities."
Kenneth NolandIts a simple fact, when you move from one color space to another color — Kenneth Noland
"Its a simple fact, when you move from one color space to another color space, that if theres a value contrast you get a strong optical illusion. Strong value contrast can be expressive and dramatic. Like the difference between high or low volume or the low key and the high keys on the piano.. .Actually, if youre moving from one flat color to another flat color, if theres a difference of color – if one is matte and the other is shiny – that contrast of tactility can keep them visually in the same dimension. It keeps them adjacent – side by side.. .Another reason is that a matte color and a shiny, transparent color are emotionally different. If something is warm and fuzzy and dense we have a kind of emotional response to that. If something is clear and you can see through it, like yellow or green or red can be, we have a different emotional sensation from that. So theres an expressive difference you can get that gives you more expressive range."
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland
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Kenneth Noland was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement. In 1977, he was honored with a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York that then traveled to
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"Tony Cairo [English abstract sculptor] and I tried to collaborate at several points and it hasnt been successful. As a matter of fact, recently Tony has made sculpture that I have painted. He has to make the sculpture before I can paint it. That means that the form is taking precedence – that the material takes precedence as a form, rather than color establishing the form. Its not going to well but Im working on it. Theres something about color that is so abstract that it is difficult for it to function in conjunction with solid form.. .Color has properties of weight, density, transparency, and so forth. And when it also has to be compatible with things that have an actual density, a given form, its very difficult."
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