Sentences with phrase «of hard edge painting»

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.

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.

The first show, «Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting,» was followed by «Lorser Feitelson: The Kinetic Series — Works from 1916 - 1923» in 2005 and «Lorser Feitelson: The Late Paintings» in 2009.

(For US collections of 20th - century paintings which include examples of hard edge painting, see: Best Art Museums in America.)

In 1967 he took up the post of art critic for the New Yorker, which gave him a vastly increased audience for his views, several of which were critical of the arts establishment, as well as certain twentieth century painters - including Frank Stella (b. 1936), inventor of Hard Edge Painting.

• Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) Painter, sculptor and printmaker, born in New York, he is best known as one of the leading exponents of Hard Edge Painting.

Another «discovery», which Castelli made in 1959, was the young Princeton graduate Frank Stella (b. 1936), soon to become the leader of Hard Edge painting.

Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting 1945 - 1965.

A refinement of Hard Edge Painting, Op - Art was a type of non-objective art which employed black and white geometric patterns to create a variety of optical effects on the viewer's physiology and psychology of perception.

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.

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.

Artists Lorser Feitelson (Lorser Feitelson and the Invention of Hard Edge Painting, The Late Paintings, and The Kinetic Series: Works from 1916 - 1923), Karl Benjamin (Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950 — 1965, Drawings from 1950 — 1965, Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin, and Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction) and Helen Lundeberg (Helen Lundeberg and the Illusory Landscape, Infinite Distance — Architectural Compositions by Helen Lundeberg) have each been featured in extensive retrospective exhibitions.

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.

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.

Noting the gallery was acquiring a sub-concentration of hard edge paintings, they decided to present a focused and dramatic show at Art New York that reveals a survey of work available at the gallery, he said.

Characteristic of hard edge paintings, they had a flat, geometric look.

Not exact matches

It painted us as being on the cutting edge of in - stadium experience, as some other teams are having a hard time filling it.

The one thing about painting on a sweater is that because it is a knit it was a bit harder to control the edges of the image.

Frankenheimer looked to the paintings of Andrew Wyeth for inspiration, and the hard edges and muscular camerawork of his earlier films gave way to tableaus of unadorned Americana.

March 2011 featured many wonderful painting blog posts on diverse topics ranging from hard - edged abstraction to the Danish Golden age of figure painting and by a mix of established art writers and artist bloggers.

I soften back the edge of the yellow paint with water so that I don't get a hard edge of yellow where the highlight begins (I want the edge to blend).

But then I'll do something intentional like painting a hard - edged geometric shape on top of an area of thick texture or heavy impasto.

Instead, you had hard - edge painting, a kind of minimalism that existed here before it was in vogue anywhere else.

Opening: Mark Reynolds at Pierogi Geometer Mark Reynolds» first exhibition of drawings reflects the artist's lifelong commitment to «drawing and visually constructing geometries,» according to a release, in the styles of geometric abstraction, hard - edge painting, minimalism, and others.

I finished my series of fifteen hard edge border paintings (colored borders around the void) in August 1966.

As a cerebral painter, this body of work continues his interest in systems, minimalism, and Op Art from the 1960s and 70s; with the computer as a drawing tool, his images also explore contemporary graphic design, digital technology and the history of hard - edged abstract, geometric painting.

In 1964, he made a series of hard - edge border paintings using gray, orange, salmon and other soft and felt color relationships.

With precise, clipped versions of nature but a joyful surface quality, the paintings juxtapose the hard edges of architecture with the dynamic chaos of the natural world.

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

I would also point to Jaffe's hard - edged paintings of the 70s, which are not Abstract Expressionist, Minimalist or Pop.

Some of the new styles and movements that appeared in the early 1960s as responses to abstract expressionism were called: Washington Color School, Hard - edge painting, Geometric abstraction, Minimalism, and Color Field.

As disparate as the artistic approaches appear to be in Rothko to Richter, what united the painters throughout the period was a commitment to process, as artists explored a range of brushwork techniques, from audaciously gestural ribbons of built - up paint to vibrating fields and soft washes of color to hard - edged geometries.

The dragging and scraping of the grey paint with a palette knife creates a soft surface in opposition to the hard - edged and flat shapes.

Her paintings draw on various traditions of abstraction from gestural and geometric, hard - edge styles.

Radical, new, Hard - Edge painting, Colorfield painting and Pop Art replaced what had become the conventional look of Abstract Expressionism.

The «Protractor» series of the late 1960s saw him paint hard - edged rainbows of color on asymmetrically combined, broadly curved canvases, forever leaving behind the rectangular frame.

Mark di Suvero's sculpture, and to a lesser degree John Chamberlain's (whose sculpture bridges Abstract Expressionism with Hard - Edge painting), and the paintings by Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Alfred Leslie resonate with the qualities of the Second Generation.

Herrera paints or draws daily even now, and her work has remained an exhilarating example of hard - edged abstraction.

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.

His earlier works, produced in the 1980's, were signature Day - Glo, hard - edged paintings that acted as metaphors for the way in which social spaces have become delineated within the proliferating abstract nature of the technological world we now live in - as prisons or cells.

The adjacent room of Hard - Edge and Colorfield Painting is as empty and absurd an installation as I've ever seen.

His diverse painting practice weaves together impulses of minimalism and hard - edge abstraction with those of the California Light and Space movement, to forge an entirely singular creative vision.

In the years following World War II, a distinctive style of art, identified as Hard - Edge painting, was developed by pioneering artists such as Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Oskar Fischinger, Helen Lundeberg, and John McLaughlin.

Painted on rectangles of sky blue with thin hard edge black lines describing simple yet complicated designs; a few of his sky blue paintings had black numbers stenciled on the surface corresponding to his own arcane system of height and width.

I should also note that he was the first of the New York School to make a mural - size painting (it measures 7.5 × 10 feet), and that his personal style owes nothing to the athletic gesture that is often identified with certain works by Pollock, de Kooning and Kline, or the subtle applications of the hard - edge geometry of Reinhardt, or the fields of suffused and unbroken color in Rothko and Newman.

His first solo exhibition took place at Kordansky's gallery in Los Angeles in 2013, a selection of early, Hard - Edge paintings curated by gallery - mate Rashid Johnson.

In 1969 I began a continuing series of stain paintings combining stained surfaces, with hard edged colored bands, painted in different sizes across the bottom (some of which had abstract writing in them) and later, colored bands of different lengths and widths on the edges.

A painting such as «Untitled (CR1403)» (2014) easily takes its place in a lineage of hard - edged abstraction with roots in Russian constructivism and including painters such as Frederick Hammersley (1919 - 2009) and Ellsworth Kelly.

Young also made a couple of sky blue paintings with white hard edge lines.

I began a group of hard edge acrylic stripe paintings and I also began to write a long and intensely personal prose poem that I called the myth.