The color
contrasts are startling, as in «Yellow Half» (1963), a canvas nearly six feet square with a solid V of vibrant red
bordered by lemon yellow and then a more subtle red, the whole set on a stark black ground; that is, the ground forms two right triangles on either side of the V. Characteristically, Mr. Noland later went back to these V's, as in «Songs: Indian Love Call» (1984), but this time with very painterly effects, crumpling the flat surfaces with broken strokes of
thick pigment.