Noland, Kenneth Clifton (1927– )
US painter. Part of the movement of abstract expressionism, he is associated with the colour-stain painters Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis. In the 1950s and early 1960s he painted targets, or concentric circles of colour, in a clean, hard-edged style on unprimed canvas. His work centred on geometry, colour, and symmetry. His paintings of the 1960s experimented with the manipulation of colour vision and afterimages, pioneering the field of op art.
| Noland attended Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and studied under French sculptor Ossip Zadkine in Paris, France 1948–49. |
