Hyperallergic – Kenneth Noland, like his fellow first-tier, Color field painter, Helen Frankenthaler, is enjoying a strong revival of interest. These artists’ alliance with the powerful and polarizing formalist critic Clement Greenberg greatly helped them early on, but hindered them in later years when Greenberg’s reputation and influence were on the wane, and painting, especially formally-oriented abstraction was looked upon as retrograde.
