Tate glossary definition for hard edge painting: An approach to abstract painting that became widespread in the 1960s and is characterized by areas of flat colour with sharp, clear.
Artworks and artists: Hard-edge painting is an abstract style that combines the clear composition of geometric abstraction with the intense color and bold, unitary forms of Color Field painting.
Invented by the critic Jules Langsner in 1959, the term Â"hard-edge paintingÂ" represented a kind of geometric or Classical painting in which the shapes within the painterly format were clearly defined by a hard edgeÂ-often, but not always, taped in the process of their delineation.
Tate glossary definition for hard edge painting: An approach to abstract painting that became widespread in the 1960s and is characterized by areas of flat colour with sharp, clear.
Artworks and artists: Hard-edge painting is an abstract style that combines the clear composition of geometric abstraction with the intense color and bold, unitary forms of Color Field painting.
Invented by the critic Jules Langsner in 1959, the term Â"hard-edge paintingÂ" represented a kind of geometric or Classical painting in which the shapes within the painterly format were clearly defined by a hard edgeÂ-often, but not always, taped in the process of their delineation.
