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Kenneth Noland [1924-0] American

Rank: 102
Artist, Painter

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 he was thought of as a minimalist painter.

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For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.		101
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.		102
The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.		103
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.		104
As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.		105
Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.		106
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.		107
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.		108
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.		109
Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.		110
I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.		111
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.		112
Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.		113

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