Word: noland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cleaved Wall (24 meat cleavers, slashed into a 30-ft. expanse of board) to a lamentable anthology of sculptural cliches that looks as if Gucci had been playing with oak beams and steel joists, but is in fact the work of the respected painter Kenneth Noland...
James Brown's "Red Zip," for example, uses Kenneth Noland's ruler-straight horizontal stripes. The painting concerns itself with color relativity-two burgundy stripes surround a red one, two reds an orange, and two oranges a yellow, reading down the canvas. Alex Packer's "Blues Progression" is a similar investigation of a hue family on a flat plane. His acrylics run from red-violet through aqua. But Packer's three-paneled work attributes more importance to form than does James Brown's-stripes end in curved edges, and three vertical stripes are halved in the last panel, leaving...