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hard-edge
(redirected from Hard-edge painting)

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hard-edge
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(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) of, relating to, or denoting a style of painting in which vividly coloured subjects are clearly delineated


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His works may be geometrical--Hammersley is one of the founding fathers of so-called hard-edge painting, which originated in 1950s Los Angeles partly in reaction to the apparently ill-disciplined messiness of New York AbEx, replacing it with something of the clarity of De Stijl--but they are geometrically uncanny.
Represent them symbolically in a hard-edge painting by using architectural tools, masking tape and spatter/spray paint.
Curiously enough, the hard-edge paintings gave rise to Lozano's first significant works of conceptual art, drawings she would come to call "language pieces.
 
 
 
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