Via glow
1968
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 38.5 × 472.5 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in pencil on reverse c.r.: VIA GLOW / Kenneth Noland 1968
- Accession Number
- EA4-1970
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1970
© Kenneth Noland/VAGA, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Clement Greenberg, the leading American art critic of the 1950s and 1960s, championed Kenneth Noland’s work. This unusually long, thin painting by Noland exemplifies Greenberg’s arguments for an austere vision of art, based on his view that artists should focus on the specific qualities of their medium that are unique, which for painting meant colour and flatness. As Greenberg wrote in 1961, ‘The essence of modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of the characteristic methods of a discipline to criticise the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but to entrench it more formally in its area of competence.’
- Subjects (general)
- Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- flat (form attributes) horizontality lines (artistic concept) stripes
- Movements
- Colour-field Minimalism
