Via glow
1968
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
38.5 × 472.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1970
© Kenneth Noland/VAGA, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
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.’
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse c.r.: VIA GLOW / Kenneth Noland 1968
Accession Number
EA4-1970
Department
International Painting
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
Subjects (general)
Nonrepresentational Art
Subjects (specific)
flat (form attributes) horizontality lines (artistic concept) stripes
Movements
Colour-field Minimalism