Another Line

The Tate Gallery, London (the UK).

Acrylic on canvas.

The work belongs to a series of large-scale works by Kenneth Noland, united under the code name “strips”. It has an unusual elongated shape in length, which allows the viewer to not just look at the picture but completely immerse into it, feeling the direct influence of colour. The background is the most important in this composition; it is a neutral field of sand colour. Thin green stripes extend in the middle of the work, resembling the horizon; the blue bar at the bottom and the red bar at the top limit the visual space. Thus, the viewer is under the impression that the “Another Line” picture has strict boundaries from above and below but is almost endless in the horizontal plane.