Sentences with phrase «edge painting term»

Hard Edge Painting Term coined in 1959 to describe abstract (but not geometric) painting, using large, flat areas of colour with precise edges.

Not exact matches

We have a lot of dry wall, and because we live in a brick and timber loft with exposed duct work and pipes, we ended up spending lots of time «cutting in — a term I now know means painting carefully with a brush at the edges of a wall or around anything like a pipe or fixture — and taping.

His use of colour in his «wobbly hard edge» paintings (his term) makes everything else in here look dull.

Could you talk a little bit about the edges of forms in your paintings and how you think of achieving those edges and why you don't like hard edge specifically as a term.

The term «hard edge» was coined at the time to describe the geometric, abstract paintings by Hammersley, Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson and John McLaughlin.

In fact, hard edge painting is a term that came to describe a tendency applied in the artworks of different Modern and Contemporary artists across many movements.

In 1964, the author of the term, critic Clement Greenberg used it in the title of the exhibition featuring new tendencies in color field painting, hard - edge abstraction, and the Washington Color School.

For Greenberg they possess a radicalism that comes more from Impressionism than Cubism, while his later dissatisfaction with increased mannerism of the Abstract Expressionist paintings led him to coin the term Post-painterly Abstraction under which he included the novel tendencies in abstraction such as color field painting, hard - edge abstraction, and the Washington Color School.

Hard - edge can be seen to be associated with one or more school of painting, but is also a generally descriptive term, for these qualities found in any painting.

«Hard - Edge» is a term coined by LA critic Jules Langsner to describe geometric abstract painting of 1960's.

In simple terms, Hard - edge painting - which recalls the Precisionism associated with the De Stijl theories and Neo-Plasticism of Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), as well as works by Josef Albers (1888 - 1976)- combines the clear imagery of geometric abstraction with the intense hues of Colour Field Ppainting - which recalls the Precisionism associated with the De Stijl theories and Neo-Plasticism of Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), as well as works by Josef Albers (1888 - 1976)- combines the clear imagery of geometric abstraction with the intense hues of Colour Field PaintingPainting.

The term Hard - edge painting was first used in 1959 by the art historian and critic Jules Langsner, when describing the non-figurative pictures of four West Coast artists (Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin) whom he had brought together in an exhibition entitled Four Abstract Classicists, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Note: The term «abstract expressionism» encompases a number of differing styles or mini-movements, including: Action - Painting (1947 - 56), Colour Field Painting (c.1948 - 68), Post-Painterly Abstraction (c.1955 - 65), Hard Edge Painting (Late 1950s, Early 1960s).

«Benjamin was one of four artists in the landmark 1959 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that coined the term «hard - edge painting,» now in common usage for geometric abstraction that relies on color as a primary subject.

The styles embraced by this term include Hard - Edge Painting, illustrated by the works of abstract painters like Al Held (b. 1928), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), Frank Stella (b. 1936), and Jack Youngerman (b. 1926); Colour Stain Painting, exemplified by Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), Joan Mitchell (1926 - 92), and Jules Olitski (b. 1922); Washington Colour Painters, such as Gene Davis (1920 - 85), Morris Louis (1912 - 62) and Kenneth Noland (b. 1924); Systemic Painting, which covered the work of Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 67), as well as Stella and Youngerman; Lyrical Abstraction, including works by Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), Frankenthaler and others; Colour Field Painting, illustrated by the works of pioneers Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), and Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), as well as Frankenthaler, Noland, Stella, Olitski, Morris Louis, Ellsworth Kelly and Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 93); and Minimal Painting which referred to pictures by Robert Mangold (b. 1937), Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), Brice Marden (b. 1938), and Robert Ryman (b. 1930).

Invented by the critic Jules Langsner in 1959, the term «hard - edge painting» represented a kind of geometric or Classical painting in which the shapes within the painterly format were clearly defined by a hard edge — often, but not always, taped in the process of their delineation.

It was trying to come to terms with those paintings of his, but knowing one couldn't go on making them that simple... the ways the edges met, how colors impinged upon one another, the way that affected space was much more of a problem.»

When I started painting with metallic oil pigments in Santa Barbara in 1970, I believed I was working somewhere between the two — between hard - edge and minimal art — then later decided that the term «minimal painting» was an oxymoron.

But not everyone who painted hard - edge chose this route, and not all painters were willing to relinquish their hold on painting and declare their practice in terms of «objecthood» — the notion Michael Fried critically applied to art - as - object in 1966, thereby redefining this approach to art as a type of theater.