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Hard-Edge Painting

Hard-Edge Painting
Term applied to abstract paintings composed of simple geometric or organic forms executed in broad, flat colours and delineated by precise, sharp edges. The term was coined by the Californian art critic Jules Langsner in 1958 and intended by him merely as an alternative to the term ‘geometric abstraction’. Generally, however, it is used in a more specific sense: whereas geometric abstraction can be used to describe works with large numbers of separate, possibly modelled, ... (view more)

Hard-Edge Painting
Term applied to abstract paintings composed of simple geometric or organic forms executed in broad, flat colours and delineated by precise, sharp edges. The term was coined by the Californian art critic Jules Langsner in 1958 and intended by him merely as an alternative to the term ‘geometric abstraction’. Generally, however, it is used in a more specific sense: whereas geometric abstraction can be used to describe works with large numbers of separate, possibly modelled, elements creating a spatial effect, hard-edge painting refers only to works comprised of a small number of large, flat forms, generally avoiding the use of pictorial depth. It is in relation to this type of painting, particularly as produced by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, KENNETH NOLAND, Barnett Newman (see NEWMAN, BARNETT, fig. 2) and Ad Reinhardt from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, that the term acquired general currency. Characteristic of this style are Newman’s The Gate (1954; Amsterdam, Stedel. Mus.) and Kelly’s White Black (1961; Chicago, IL, A. Inst.; see fig.).  (hide)

Examples of Hard-Edge Painting at Auction

Artists Associated with Hard-Edge Painting — 10 artists:

Karl Stanley Benjamin Lorser Feitelson Frederick Hammersley Al Held Ellsworth Kelly

John McLaughlin Barnett Benedict Newman Kenneth Noland Ad Reinhardt Jack Youngerman

Auction Houses that have sold Hard-Edge Painting works - 70

  

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