[the 'Surfboards' - series works Noland made mid-70's] were almost like cut-out figures without being figurative... I think of them, in some way, as being like figures; they remind me of figures in vertical Cubist paintings. Even the small pictures have that kind of human proportion in the rectangles. It's not exactly a reference, but the relation of length to width in the rectangles is like a person.


Kenneth Noland, pp. 23-24 - 'Conversation with Karen Wilkin' (1986-1988)

Kenneth Noland Quotes

[the 'Surfboards' - series works Noland made mid-70's] were almost like cut-out figures without being figurative... I think of them, in some way, as...

[the 'Surfboards' - series works Noland made mid-70's] were almost like cut-out figures without being figurative... I think of them, in some way, as...

[the 'Surfboards' - series works Noland made mid-70's] were almost like cut-out figures without being figurative... I think of them, in some way, as...

[the 'Surfboards' - series works Noland made mid-70's] were almost like cut-out figures without being figurative... I think of them, in some way, as...