Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland (born 1924) is an American painter.Born in Asheville,
North Carolina, Noland attended the experimental Black Mountain
College. He is identified as an abstract expressionist.
He became friends with Morris Louis, and the pair of them adopted
Helen Frankenthaler's technique of allowing acrylic paint to soak
into unprimed canvases. Noland went on to paint pictures of targets
(pre-empting Jasper Johns) and later concentrated on hard-edged
chevron- and stripe-based designs.
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