Tiger Lilies

The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (theUSA).

Oil on canvas, enamel.

Kenneth Noland’s early work attests to his fascination with abstract expressionism. The muffled colour palette, spontaneous strokes and streaks of paint suggest that the artist created the image based on his emotions and intuitive actions. This is one of Noland’s latest works in this style. At the end of 1953, after visiting the studio of Helen Frankenthaler, his paintings took on a completely different look – they became completely abstract, and the colours that the artist used became more saturated.