Hard Edge Painting Term coined in 1959 to describe abstract (but not geometric) painting, using large,
flat areas of colour with precise edges.
The picture made full use of the fashionable technique of Cloisonnism (from the French cloison, meaning partition) a method popular with French symbolist painters, which was characterized by
flat areas of colour bordered by heavy outlines.
• Synthetism (1888 - 94) Noted for
its flat areas of colour.
Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), his Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk - screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and
flat areas of colour.
Not exact matches
Brighten the
area with a creamy, light base
colour and then add a wash
of a
flattering satiny
colour.
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Impressive though his hand is, this alone is not the defining characteristic
of Jones's work; his eye for
colour is uniquely his own, juxtaposing mint greens with deep reds and vast
areas of flat luminous yellow with thick navy blue outlines.
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.
By simplifying images into shapes,
flat fields
of colour and
areas of mark making, an image is pushed towards the unrecognizable.
White space is clearly as important to Holyhead as the application
of colour, the tension between the two is an intrinsic aspect
of his compositions, with crisp, stencil - like geometric shapes cutting into
flat translucent
areas of wash, heightening both gestural process and media and making artistic intentions — an investigation into the enduring possibilities
of painting — subtly present.
And then a longing for the return
of curves and for work with larger
areas of colour brought paintings where
flat planes
of colour appear to weave in space in compositions
of lyrical and exuberant rhythms.
With their
areas of flat, unmodulated
colour and deceptively simple compositions, Tal R's paintings have long questioned our conception
of and presumptions about our surrounding reality — what we see and where its meaning and beauty lies.
The silkscreen process, which lends itself to large
areas of flat, sharply defined
colour, was ideal for the formal simplicity
of Caulfield's compositions.
Later in that decade and into the 1980s, she began to use thick and heavy impasto in carefully designed arrangements; and in recent decades, she has developed a distinctive style
of simplified organic motifs and
areas of flat yet intense
colour.
In other words the tendency for for
colour areas to fluctuate ambivalently in spatial location in «
flat» painting, is counteracted by the further cues
of shape.
Thomson's design experience permeates his late canvases, which feature stylized tree branches and
flat areas of strong
colour.
Areas of flat colour were screenprinted at Kelpra.
The various
areas of flat grey
colour would have been next, just prior to the final applications
of thicker (and relatively glossy) acrylic paint.
He saw no need for any imitation
of nature, or linear perspective to create a false «depth» to the painting, because he thought that nothing was more concrete (or more real) than a line, a
colour, or a plane (a
flat area)
of colour.
Calder's friend Joan Miró was known for both his paintings and his sculptures, the former demonstrating his reliance on
flat, intense
areas of primary
colour and playful black outlines.
These painters used large
areas, or fields,
of flat colour and thin, diaphanous paint to achieve quiet, subtle, almost meditative effects.
According to his entry in Benezit, Schuster's paintings «are very structured, built on geometrical forms painted in
areas of flat colour which are nevertheless reminiscent
of landscapes and architectural views.
A friend
of the French Intimist painters Edouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940) and Pierre Bonnard (1867 — 1947), Prendergast's personal «mosaic» style employed contrasting, jewel - like colors, and patternlike
flat areas of unmodulated
colour.
Typically, he used
flat areas of simple
colour surrounded by black outlines.
By utilizing negative space and alternating between a sense
of representing a discrete object or a cutaway section
of the ground, he re-examines formal ideas
of figure and ground relationships and the image shifts between
flat areas of modern
colour and illusory depth.
Mark Rothko, Clyfford Stills, Barnett Newman) were experimenting with the use
of flat areas or fields
of colour to induce contemplation in the viewer - even to a pitch
of mystic intensity.
Back in the United States during the Great Depression
of the 1930s, he developed a new style based on the rhythmic contrast between geometric
areas of flat colour and objects clearly defined in linear perspective.
Simon Carter: Even someone like — I've just been down to see the Patrick Caulfield show at Tate Britain — in reproduction you just think they're big
areas of flat colour, but you get a physical sense off them standing in front
of the painting.
Despite bold
colour still being evident, as in
Flat Screen 2012 - 13, there are also other paintings where large menacing
areas of black provide compositional structure to the painting as in Trinity, 2007.
With their
areas of flat, unmodulated
colour and deceptively simple compositions, Tal R's paintings have long questioned our conception
of and presumptions about our surrounding reality — what we...