Sentences with phrase «edge classicists»

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Four Abstract Classicists features hard - edge abstractions from LACMA's collection by Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, and John McLaughlin.

The abstract classicists painted forms that are, in Langsner's words, «finite, flat, rimmed by a hard clean edge... not intended to evoke in the spectator any recollections of specific shapes he may have encountered in some other connection.

There are hard - edge geometric paintings by Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin called the Abstract Classicists after their 1959 show, as well as influential figurative artists like Rico Lebrun, who was, among other things, a teacher of Baldessari.

While Feitelson had been independently experimenting with «the hard - edge» since the 1940s, the term sprung from Jules Langsner's 1959 «Four Abstract Classicists» show at LACMA.

If the crux of Elise's work is found in the glitches (it's worth mentioning that in the catalogue essay for Four Abstract Classicists Langsner states that «accident is not allowed to intrude» in hard - edge painting) then for Feitelson it's the space between the boulders — which never make contact.

«Four Abstract Classicists» traveled to London, where the work was more accurately called «hard - edge painting.»

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.

Hammersley was dubbed a «hard edge» artist, first gaining critical attention in the landmark 1959 «Four Abstract Classicists» exhibition along with Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, and John McLaughlin.