Blue Nile

"Noland does not use a balanced-out type of composition, it is ultimately color that has the dramatic role; interlocking with the design, it unbalances a symmetrical picture, releases it at the top, closes it off, or establishes a directional sequence...the bands--the color--gain a heightened sense of presence, a vivid sense of immediacy. So Noland's concern with figure and ground or interior and exterior is simultaneously the impulse to give color greater life, to force it outward toward the viewer." (K. Moffett, Kenneth Noland, New York, 1977, p. 65.