While «formulaic,» something I railed against in the late 1960's and early 1970's Minimalist - Conceptual art world, I find the process surprisingly interesting, particularly passing it through the filter of non-taped
edges of the painted form.
«While «formulaic,» something I railed against in the late 1960's and early 1970's Minimalist - Conceptual dominated art world, I find the process surprisingly interesting, particularly passing it through the filter of non-taped
edges of the painted form.
Not exact matches
John Yau, however, recently noted that the
forms in Held's early 60s
paintings, such as The Yellow X, extend beyond the picture plane, creating an awareness
of the environment beyond the canvas
edge.
Abstracted landscape
paintings (rolling hills and mountains in the
form of stripes and semicircles) have frames on their lower
edges that extend...
These pieces include a pair
of paintings by Nak - Beom Kho, depicting closely cropped, chiseled male faces
of mannequins, and black - and - white photographs
of Nakamura's sculptural works such as Car Cover (1991), which show two
forms that each resemble the shape
of a car — one rounded and the other square -
edged.
Done in enamel on identically sized aluminum panels, the highly concentrated compositions are the result
of a visual algorithm in which the
forms increased incrementally in height and width as they moved outward from the central, vertical axis — a narrow, empty space — toward the
painting's physical
edges.
Partly a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, best known in the thickly layered
paintings of American artists Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, Hard -
Edge emphasized angular lines, reduced
forms, precise surfaces, and rich colors.
The lightness
of being in his work, the range
of forms, contours,
edges, saturations and coloring — and the lightness
of the spaces in between his network
of slashes, swatches, and other painterly exchanges, is so navigable for the eye that the
paintings are airy, permeable, and most significantly, written in a language that is all his own.
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.
[13] Begun around 2001, the Piths, canvases with deliberately frayed
edges and covered in thick black strokes
of paint, indicate Truitt's interest in
forms that blur the lines between two and three dimensions.
Sydney Ball, Zianexis, 2009 Acrylic on canvas, 152 x 168 cm March 4 - 21, 2010 The following extract is taken from «Sydney Ball: prophet
of abstraction» by Wendy Walker, Sydney Ball: The Colour
Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract
Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end
of the 1990s
of an insistent
form in Ball's
paintings — reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract
paintings — reminiscent
of shapes in early drawings
of rock formations from his landscape works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged -
edged motifs in the abstract -LSB-...]
The exhibition includes several
of Andrade's major Op art
paintings, which combine hard -
edged geometric
forms and lines into illusory, and sometimes hallucinatory, compositions.
From the metal, mechanical
edges of Chimes» constructions to the sinuous drips in Steir's
paintings, line takes different
forms in this group exhibition
of paintings predominantly from the 1970s.
In these
paintings, one's eye is drawn not to the center
of the canvas, but to the bold
forms that appear incised at the
edge of the surface.
For over 30 years Hadid engaged with architecture as a
form of landscape
painting, transforming the traditional hard, geometric
edges of building into organic, liquid - like
forms.
The kite - like
form at the core
of the hard -
edged paintings, and specifically the acute angles inside its triangular parts, offers a geometric basis.
The
painting's right
edge crops the blue
form while the left side
of the green square about the unpainted vertical band.
Rooted in the language
of architecture, Voisine's
paintings, prints and drawings convey a sense
of shifting spatial interactions through the use
of symmetry, color, surface, and precise, hard -
edged forms.
It presents color - driven work in the
form of monochrome, hard -
edge and color field
painting, sculpture and immersive installations.
The brushstrokes that bunch up along the
edge of the centralized
form in City Island (1958) are as involved with
paint handling as Kelly gets.
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.
Mental maps
form the basis
of his working method: they push against the
edges of the picture plane; his larger
paintings exceed a strictly 2D plane, being more like relief sculptures, employing layer upon layer
of collaged
forms — abstract
painting, ephemera from travel, photography and juxtaposed linear structures — to denote the performative aspect
of his initial research.
The darkening
forms that
edge the
paintings create a sensation
of swooping in and flying low over landscapes at the twilight hour.
Although his early works can be considered a
form of Op art, as he depicted ovals and circles on flat surfaces
of paint, he developed in his later years a style that is more linked with hard -
edge and color field
painting.
And then there are hard -
edged paintings in which space and colour are flat, flat, flat and the canvas plays tricks on your eyes,
forming faces made from collections
of interchangeable symbols such as smoke, fire, alligators, matches, razor blades, cigarettes and the letter «z».
There is a sense that the activity continues outside the borders
of the
paintings as the
forms flirt with the
edges or get chopped off by them.
Electric Soup features Krushenick's dynamic
paintings that juxtapose bold
forms with hard -
edged abstraction, revealing a body
of work that exists independent
of and simultaneously connected to Op art, Pop, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Color Field
painting.
Hard -
edge painting is characterized by large, simplified, usually geometric
forms on an overall flat surface, precise, razor - sharp contours and broad areas
of bright, unmodulated colour that have been stained into unprimed canvas.
Whereas the
forms of his wooden panel
paintings feature the careful precision and hard -
edges of geometric abstraction, the imperfections and «accidental noise» innate in Biltereyst's cardboard relief prints appear exploratory and rapidly configured, expressing not only the raw energy
of creative problem - solving usually revealed in artists» preparatory sketches, but also an interest in graphic elements battered by everyday use, exposure and interaction.
Jenny Saville, whose
paintings of the female
form replace Rubens's joy in bodies with a morbid
edge, is curating a complementary show called La Peregrina, which will include work by Freud, Bacon, Picasso and Sarah Lucas.
In abstract
painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like hard -
edge painting and other
forms of geometric abstraction began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant - garde circles as a reaction against the subjectivism
of abstract expressionism.
Ippolito continued to open up the picture plane in his oil on linen 1980s works with the soft diffusions
of color and suggestive
forms of «Paesaggio» (1980), the floating irregular shapes
of «One June Morning» (1988) in a blue / lavender mist, the opposing
edges of shapes hanging on within the blue field
of «Small
Painting» (1982), and the floating orange - on - orange diffusions suspended in «Orange» (1982), all pieces which exemplify Ippolito's belief in «color as light.»
In his «Eccentric Polygon» series, from 1965 and «66, he embraces asymmetry and bold color, creating
forms delineated by
painted fields and by the
edges of the canvas.
In folded
form, the
paintings asserted a quiet materiality; the textiles — in a range
of white, cream and brown hues — often frayed at the
edges.
Moving from drawing, to
painting, to sculpture, the physical manifestation
of her
forms brings to life the precision
of Herrera's sharp
edges.
The Automatiste movement gave way in the mid-1950s to a rigorous
form of hard -
edge abstraction first marked in the work
of Leduc and the Plasticiens, a group that was
formed in 1954 by the critic Rodolphe de Repentigny (who
painted under the pseudonym Jauran) and 3 other painters; it first exhibited in 1955.
Many
of the
forms and compositions recall mid-century Minimalism, Hard -
edge painting, and modernist architecture with its utopian ideals
of living.
So, as we pass through this collection
of around 40 drawings and
paintings, we're supposed to look for clues and hints
of the later brilliance and construct a narrative or timeline that leads to its blossoming (which, here, comes in the
form of At the
Edge of Town (1986 - 8), a
painting showing a figure emerging onto the kind
of semiabstracted landscape for which Doig is best known).
Tony Delap, Modern Times III, 1966 Wood, fiberglas and lacquer, 32 x 84 x 38 inches March 7 — April 4, 2009 Pushing the
edges, often literally,
of his primary disciplines, artist Tony DeLap has dedicated close to half a century to exploring the seam between sculpture and
painting, merging the boarders
of architecture, design and art, reducing to the most basic expression
of form, shape, scale and color, while remaining devoted to the -LSB-...]
The curators discussed issues
of material specificity and spatial concerns in contemporary
painting practices, and examined the work
of cutting
edge artists whose work ignites a dialogue about sculptural and installation
forms of painting.
Created by layering thickly
painted areas with fragments
of found maps, the composition mixes mechanical reproductions with tactile brushwork to yield a central circular
form edged by both
paint and paper.
Bleckner,
of course, has been mining the territory mapped by tragic loss and fleeting beauty throughout his career, and his waxy new works ---- clock faces overlaid by bright floral motifs on canvas and paper ---- continue in this vein and show him in peak
form as he returns to gestural
painting from recent harder -
edged, airbrushed works.
Together
forming an oasis
of color, each
painting is dominated by a bright tone and finished with the artist's signature slanted
edges, pushing the piece into the physical space
of the viewer.
A consummate draftsman, Hammersley
formed the
edges of the shapes in his
paintings with a palette knife, never using tape or a mechanical device to
form a straight
edge.
In abstract
painting during the 1950s and 1960s several new directions like Hard -
edge painting and other
forms of Geometric abstraction like the work
of Frank Stella popped up, as a reaction against the subjectivism
of Abstract expressionism began to appear in artist studios and in radical avant - garde circles.
Contino's early works are hard -
edged geometric
paintings (including shaped canvases) composed
of thick lines and contrasting solid colors that divide the canvas and
form intricate shapes.
There is, however, a marked variety in the formal means
of the
paintings of 1947, ranging from precisely
edged forms and dense Cézanne-esque brushwork to loosely
painted, disconnected areas that spill over the surface.
However, in his drawings, Moon deployed loosely defined
forms with lines that are softened by the use
of pastels, making them distinct from the more strictly geometric shapes and sharp
edges that characterise his
paintings.
Works by seven artists — Colin Cina, Bernard Cohen, Noel Forster, Derek Hirst, Michael Kidner RA, Jack Smith and Richard Smith — developed the
form in divergent directions, from the hard -
edged paintings of Hirst to Kidner's optically expanding pattern pieces.
Though not as well - known as figures such as Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, or Dan Flavin, Ryman is nonetheless one
of the pioneers
of Minimalist
painting, whose works attempt to empty the
painting of content — and color — in order to focus almost entirely on
form and process, an idiom in which he has continued to work for some sixty years, long past the demise
of Minimalism as a cutting -
edge movement.