From the Dust of Stars: Kenneth Noland (1924 - 2010)
Kenneth Noland (1924 -2010) Spread 117" x 117" oil on canvas 1958 Gift of William S. Rubin, Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection. © Kenneth Noland / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY From the exhibition “New York Cool” held at the Museum of Art, Brunswick photo by Tommy Wilcox for The Bowdoin Orient "Mr. Noland’s signature motif was a radiant target made of rings of pure color strained directly on raw canvas, with that canvas contributing a wonderful sense of breathing room between each band of color. The power of the colors, their often discordant interaction and the expanding and contracting rhythms of the bands of paint and the raw canvas, could be stunningly direct and vibrant." - Roberta Smith on Kenneth Noland. "But beautiful ideas are rarely entirely wrong, and something close to Lorentz’s idea is embodied in modern QCD. Quarks carry color charge, and generate color electric fields analogous to the ordinary electric fields around electrons....