Hard Edge
Abstract Classicist painting is hard-edged painting. Forms are finite, flat, rimmed by a hard, clean edge. These forms are not intended to evoke in the spectator any recollections of specific shapes he may have encountered in some other connection. They are autonomous shapes, sufficient unto themselves as shapes.” Jules Langsner Synopsis Hard-edge painting is a tendency in late 1950s and 1960s art that is closely related to Post-painterly abstraction and color field painting. It describes an abstract style that combines the clear composition of geometric abstraction with the intense color and bold, unitary forms of color field painting. Although it was first identified with Californian artists, today the phrase is used to describe one of the most distinctive tendencies in abstract painting throughout the United States in the 1960s. Key Points Hard-edge abstraction was part of a general tendency to move away from the expressive qualities of gestural abstraction. Many painters also sought to avoid the shallow, post-Cubist space of Willem de Kooning’s work, and instead adopted the open fields of color seen in the work of Barnett Newman. Hard-edge painting is known for its economy of form, fullness of color, impersonal execution, and smooth surface planes. The term “hard-edge abstraction” was devised by Californian art critic Jules Langsner, and was initially intended to title a 1959 exhibition that included four West Coast artists – Karl Benjamin, John McLaughlin, Frederick Hammersley and Lorser Feitelson. Although, later, the style was often referred to as “California hard-edge,” and these four artists became synonymous with the movement, Langsner eventually decided to title the show Four Abstract Classicists (1959), as he felt that the style marked a classical turn away from the romanticism of Abstract Expressionism.
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Georg Karl Pfahler 1970 Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen Hard Edge
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Georg Karl Pfahler 1970 Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen Hard Edge
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Allan D’Arcangelo Landscape III 1965 Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen Pop Art
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Allan D’Arcangelo Left Turn 1979 Original Serigraph Silkscreen Print
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Thomas (Kasper) Lenk Series B 1971 Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen
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Pierre Clerk Plate II Green 1973 Signed Limited Edition Large Silkscreen
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Pierre Clerk Plate V Yellow-Red 1973 Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen
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Allan D’Arcangelo Resonance 1978 Original Signed Silkscreen
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Allan D’Arcangelo Signed Art Silkscreen US Highway #1 1978 Original
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Takesada Matsutani The Proper Place p 1971 Limited Edition SIlkscreen
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Thomas (Kasper) Lenk Series A 1971 Limited Edition Silkscreen on Heavy Paper
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Thomas (Kasper) Lenk Series C 1971 Limited Edition Modern Art Silkscreen
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Mario Yrisarry STERN 1967 Signed Limited Edition from Graphic USA
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