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TT: Kenneth Noland, R.I.P.

January 6, 2010 by Terry Teachout

%2829%29%20NOLAND%20CIRCLE.jpgColor-field abstraction long ago ceased to be fashionable, but in the Sixties it was one of the most admired movements in modern American art, and Kenneth Noland, who died yesterday at the age of eighty-five, was one of its most celebrated practitioners.
To his admirers, Noland’s circles and chevrons were as endlessly and subtly varied as Giorgio Morandi’s jugs and bottles. Clement Greenberg, his greatest critical admirer, spoke of how Noland was “not interested in circles as such, but in concentricity and color,” going on to say that he used those elements “for the sake of feeling, and as vehicles of feeling.” As time went by and fashion changed, fewer people responded to Noland’s work, but he continued to be regarded as a master by those who shared his fecund fascination with the expressive power of pure color.
I have a passion for Noland’s paintings, and four years ago ago I was lucky enough to acquire Circle I (II-3), a 1978 monoprint on handmade paper that I wrote about here. I love everything in the Teachout Museum, but that particular piece is a special treasure, and since I’m in Florida and Circle I (II-3) is in Manhattan, I thought I’d post a snapshot of it in order to remind myself of how beautiful it is.
Alas, I never met the man who made it, but if I had, I would have done my best to tell him how much his art meant–and means–to me.

TT: Snapshot

January 6, 2010 by Terry Teachout

John Wayne talks to the CBC about the art of acting:

(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)

TT: Almanac

January 6, 2010 by Terry Teachout

“Movies in America destroy that fine, seldom even perceived sense of the importance and dignity of one’s own life.”
Patricia Highsmith, notebook entry, August 27, 1945

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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