Details
The image
Bands of colour running edge to edge, each one a different width, the surface flat and unmixed. There is no frame, no centre and no brushwork to distract from the relation between one stripe and the next, the picture is an arrangement of intervals.
Where it comes from
The painting reproduced here belongs to Kenneth Noland’s Turnsole series, made in the 1960s, when he reduced the picture to the behaviour of adjacent hues: put two colours side by side and the eye does the rest. The method removed drawing entirely and it transferred to print more easily than any other kind of painting, because flat areas reproduce faithfully at almost any size. Noland worked the same idea for years, changing the shape of the canvas rather than the argument.
On the wall
It suits a modern interior, a study or a hallway, where a banded image gives a wall rhythm without adding a subject. Because the composition is even, it holds a long wall and works above furniture. In a group it should be the piece that sets the tempo.
In company
The rest of the Geometric collection holds pieces from the same years and the same printing habits.Avoid a second banded print nearby, the rhythm cancels out when repeated and the bands read best where the wall is wide enough for them to run uninterrupted.
