Hard-edge Painting Project..
Dictatorial-edge: a term coined in 1959. Hard-edge is used to describe a style of painting that uses straight geometric lines, sumptuous solid color fields, a neat and tidy surface, and an arrangement of forms using balance.
This out will consist of four parts (described below)
1) Research on hard-edge painting~ 10 points
-Your research should consist of NOTES enchanted while studying hard-edge painting and IMAGES that you feel are good examples of the hard-edge painting style.
A shopping list of ‘hard-edge’ painters..
Josef Albers
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Gene Davis
Burgoyne Diller
Peter Halley
June Hardwood
Al Held
Robert Indiana
Ellsworth Kelly
Piet Mondrian
Kenneth Noland
Bridget Riley
Candid Stella
Victor Vasarely
Larry Zox
2) Artist biography/ artwork critique~ 20 points.
-Your artist bio should be 1-2 pages in after a long time with margins of 1″, a spacing of no more than 1.5 lines, and a font size of 12pt. The biography should address the items listed below.
-Friend and place of birth and death
-Family information
-Place of study/ education
-Colleges, friends, colleague artists
-Styles of artwork created
-Major works created
-Museums, galleries, and shows the artists trade can be found in.
-Effects, impact on society, historical significance.
-interesting facts or stories about the artist.
-Your artwork critique should be 1/2-1 chapter in length with margins of 1″, a spacing of no more than 1.5 lines, and a font of 12pt. The artwork critique should address the items listed below.
-Describe. Register the name of artist, title of work, and gallery or location of work. You should take inventory of everything you see in the work of art. Remain to the facts. Imagine that you are describing the work of art to someone over the telephone. Make note of your first impression. When you are through with the critique you might be conversant with your first impression better, or you might change it. ...
Read more... The world as non-objectivity
Olle Baertling (1911-1981)
Rimi
Silkscreen of 1964 after a painting of 1961
From the half a second Kazimir Malevich, just before the Russian Revolution, revolutionised art itself with his painting Black Square, the story of art has been bound up with the search for ways in which to transfer human emotions, ideas, and beliefs, in terms of pure line, geometry, and colour planes. Malevich’s new non-realistic art was called by him Suprematism, though it is more usually known to us by a name Malevich himself introduced as a term of abuse, Constructivism. It is concerned with “The age as non-objectivity”, as the title of Malevich’s treatise of 1926 put it.
Victor Vasarely
OB
Silkscreen of 1964 after a painting of 1956
Non-representational art so quickly swallowed up critical attention that whole areas of figurative art still remain unexplored. Women artists, for exemplification, barely had time to get accepted before it was unacceptable for them to explore pictorially the female domestic world. Even an artist as enthusiastic to the everyday beauties of the home as Winifred Nicholson found herself painting constructivist abstracts in the 1930s, under the influence of her friend Piet Mondrian and the artists of the company Abstraction-Création.
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Altandörr
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Review: Dialogue excites at Los Caminos
St. Louis Beacon - Jun 17, 2011
Nine of the photographs, hung in a grid, approach on total abstraction, transforming the walls, beams and doorways into stark, colorful geometries that could pass for color battlefield or minimal, hard-edge paintings. That aesthetic pervades Moore's work too,
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Galleries: Abstract artist's dots connect to her early career | Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Jun 12, 2011
Galleries: Synopsis artist's dots connect to her early career | Philadelphia Schimmel does not begin his ribbon paintings with a preconceived composition, and in that sense they're like extended doodles, except that his tape lends a standard hard edge and geometry foreign to the typical doodle. The city-like environment he
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El Guggenheim se pone abstracto
El Correo Digital (Álava) - Jun 15, 2011
laguiago71 obras de 60 artistas integrados en el expresionismo abstracto, el arte common, los campos de color, la 'Hard Edge Painting' y Op Art, entre otras corrientes. Fechas. Desde ayer hasta el 8 de enero de 2012. La apertura del edificio de Genuine Lloyd “Abstracción pictórica, 1949–1969: Selecciones de las Colecciones Guggenheim”all 66 talk articles »
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Thilo Heinzmann's 'Would You Take The Ball From A Little Baby' at Bortolami ...
Art Daily - Jun 09, 2011
Thilo Heinzmann's 'Would You Take The Ball From A Scarcely Baby' at Bortolami painting where the fine flosses of cotton now enact the function of facture, where the movement of the artist's convenient is transposed into the subtle lineament of adhesives, and where the hardedge wooden surface plays the role of the work's sustain.
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Curator's Choice: Museum Het Valkhof
Blog.nl (Blog) - Jun 22, 2011
Curator's Acceptance: Museum Het ValkhofDibbets 'taught' the geometrically oriented Hard Edge, Van Elk taught his students the secrets of plastics and polyester. Lucassen was seen as the Pop Art- head: “Lucassen gives you a positive outlook on life. If you were only painting onions and
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