Red Upturn

"With his shaped pictures, Noland created an irregular, asymmetrical, but still straight-edged shape that avoids the static, a priori character that the rectangular and diamond shapes still possessed. Horizontal-vertical balance is not given by horizontal edges or axes, but created by making the outside and inside equivalent as intuitively-arrived-at, dynamic configurations, which, together, establish a tense equilibrium." (Kenworth Moffet, Kenneth Noland, New York, 1988, p. 80)