I made a lot
of hard edge paintings during that time and by the Fall of 1965 I finished a series of drawings of my next and really first series of mature paintings.
Hard Edge Painting Term coined in 1959 to describe abstract (but not geometric) painting, using large, flat areas of colour with precise edges.
This balance makes up her definition
of Hard Edge painting — wherein color forms are positioned against each other, alternating between being a positive or negative space.
Using bold planes of color, Johnson reaffirms the tradition of Southern California
hard edge painting for this millennium.
As with Noland's earlier work, he continued to apply color as a physical material substance, but unlike his earlier
hard edged paintings which rely on fields of dense color, for Into the Cool he used color through subtle tone and transparency.
• HARD EDGE & SHAPED CANVAS Kenneth Noland (b. 1924) Associated
with Hard Edge Painting, Minimalism & Post-Painterly Abstraction.
His
early hard edge paintings were technically flawless, with repetitious shapes, patterning in the form of stripes and checkerboards, and a lot of red, green and blue.
Post-War Abstraction: Our inventory also contains examples of abstraction from the 1950s through the 1970s, including Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, Washington Color School and
California Hard Edge Painting.
D. Wigmore Fine Art offers examples of
1960s Hard Edge Painting from Los Angeles, Washington DC, and New York in its fall exhibition.
Rothko's giant - sized colour - saturated abstract canvases paved the way for movements
like Hard Edge Painting and other 1960s styles of Post-Painterly Abstraction.
The American abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly, who has died aged 92, created sharply defined compositions that were, at least initially, linked to his visual experiences — «a window, or a fragment of a piece of architecture, or someone's legs...» In the early 1950s, his style anticipated the unbroken colours and clear lines of
hard edge painting by some years.
One of the earliest paintings in the exhibition, Byzantium (1967), created just after her move to La Jolla, is a pivotal example of Schapiro's transition from abstract expressionism to
Hard Edge painting during this brief period when she lived in Southern California.
Before I began my fifteen series paintings, 9» x 6», large open fields with 4» borders I made a group of nine or ten large
hard edge paintings in mostly primary colors and some smaller ones a few of which were in black and white.
During the teens and twenties the aforementioned Charles Demuth, Stuart Davis, Patrick Henry Bruce, and Gerald Murphy produced marvelous
hard edged paintings mostly in Europe that I suspect were intended as American ironies at the time and in Davis» case were not his best works.
Unfortunately, critic Sidney Tillim's 1969 essay for the Milwaukee Art Center, which referred to the images as «machines,» deterred the artist from
exploring Hard Edge painting further.
Laura Jane Scott's vividly abstract compositions embrace not only the two essential elements of
Abstract Hard Edge Painting, colour and structure, but also principles of Conceptual Art.
Loving
began hard edge painting of cubes and hexagons in 1967, and launched his New York career after his first one - person exhibition with Gertrude Kasle gallery in Detroit in 1969.
Hard Edge Painting emerged as more than a reaction against Abstract Expressionism; it reflected a renewed interest in color isolated from emotion using geometric abstraction and a new approach to compositional unity within a single plane.
Although hard edge painting became widespread in the 1960s, it was mostly present in California, where artists like John McLaughlin, Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley and Feitelson's wife Helen Lundeberg created both figurative and non-representational artwork.
For this show the artist introduces the union of seemingly disparate forms,
joining hard edge painting and graffiti tagging, sculptures that mimic the gestural three - dimensional movement of spray paint, and the constructed nature of city landscapes vs. hard edge abstraction.
Originally
making hard edge paintings, he now merges painting and sculpture featuring a multiple of hues and take on the appearance of mosaic.
He included works by Stella, along with works by abstract painters like Kenneth Noland (b. 1924), Al Held (b. 1928), Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), and Jack Youngerman (b. 1926), all of whom were beginning to be associated with the
new Hard Edge Painting, a non-gestural variant of the broader trend known as Post-Painterly Abstraction (PPA).
Joanne Mattera blogs about two New York shows: Gabriel Evertz: The Gray Question at Minus Space (through Oct 31) and
1960s Hard Edge Painting: DC, LA, NY at D. Wigmore Fine Art (through Nov 6).
Robert Indiana's totemic sculptures and
hard edge paintings filled with enigmatic numbers and text were lionized by New York art critics in the early 1960s, patient who listed him with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist as one of young Turks taking on the rule of abstract expressionism.
His colour - saturated abstract paintings - some of which are available online in the form of poster art - influenced many of the younger generation of modern artists including Frank Stella (b. 1936), Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928), Kenneth Noland (b. 1924) and others, and paved the way for movements
like Hard Edge Painting and other 1960s styles of Post-Painterly Abstraction.
She began her painting career as a social realist, creating large - scale murals including a 8 x 241 foot painting titled History of Transportation in Inglewood, before finding herself drawn to geometric abstraction and
Hard Edge painting during the 1950s.
In his newest body of work, the artist explores ideas from architecture, graphic design, and the visual languages of Constructivism and
California Hard Edge painting.
My paintings were large scale, hard edge and a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and
hard edge painting.
For example, I have seen
some hard edge paintings which Gorky made as experiments and they were beautifully put together.
Valledor was known for
his hard edge painting and interest in color and geometry.
Breaking away from Abstract Expressionism, Post-Painterly Abstraction embraced new styles and concepts by employing color field and
hard edge painting.
From the rigorous flatness of
hard edge painting to the celestial expanse of color field work, color can enhance or defy the flatness of the canvas, and activate the work in an exciting variety of ways.
Hard edge painting and its artists relied on color, shape and line to make impersonal artworks of entirely abstract art.
WHAT: «Jack Beal:
Hard Edge Paintings 1968 - 1972» WHEN: Through February 28 WHERE: George Adams Gallery, 525 - 531 West 26th Street, New York
In «Jack Beal:
Hard Edge Paintings 1968 - 1972,» the result is a stunning, short - lived body of work.
The viewer's participation in an active visual dialogue with a painting was in fact a part of
all Hard Edge painting and the MoMA exhibition included examples by all three schools.
These Hard Edge paintings are creative in conception, immensely skillful in execution, and offer the viewer a central role.
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.
«But I think it had something to do with
my hard edge painting.
The legendary Black Square and the star of the Suprematism movement, the artwork by Kazimir Malevich certainly represents one of the major examples of
hard edge painting, even though it wasn't created during the highlight years of the style.
Alongside color field painting and post-painterly abstraction,
hard edge painting was introduced to the world of abstract art as a response to the gestural Abstract Expressionism.
Karlos Cárcamo,
Hard Edge Painting (Stan 153), 2011 Latex and enamel paint on canvas over panel 48 x 48 inches April 7 — May 14, 2011 «Combining my interest in urban culture and art history I navigate toward making work that is in constant dialog with each other.
Writing about
the Hard Edge Painting show Mattera notes: «While the Washington painters worked largely on unprimed canvas, the Los Angeles group worked in oil, and the New Yorkers in acrylic.