Hard edge
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The terms hard edge and soft edge are used to describe two different ways in which objects can be painted. A hard edge is the term used when the edge of an object is painted in a well defined or definite way.
Hard Edge Painting
A type of painting (predominantly abstract) in which forms, although not necessarily geometrical, have sharp contours and are executed in flat colours.
Hard edge painting
term coined in 1959 to describe ABSTRACT (but not geometric) painting, using large, flat areas of colour with precise edges.
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Hard Edge Painting
First used in the late 1950s in reference to the non-representational paintings of a group of American artists. These artworks were characterised by precisely defined areas or geometric shapes of flat smooth colour.
Hard Edge Painting.
Jules Langsner, a California critic, used the term in the late 1950s to distinguish the new nonobjective, geometrical painting from prewar varieties.
Hard Edge Painting - A recent innovation that originated in New York and was adopted by certain contemporary painters. Forms are depicted with precise, geometric lines and edges.
Pop stresses frontal presentation and flatness of unmodulated and unmixed color bound by hard edges. They suggest the depersonalized processes of mass production.
HARD EDGE
an area in a pinting where there is a sudden change in value or color.
IMPASTO
thickly painted surface that has a noticeable physical depth.
LIGHTFASTNESS
the strength of pigment to hold its color.
Their early experiments with the style uses extremely bright colors, hard edged forms, and flattened space.
Drawing from traditional German printmaking, the style uses precise and hard edges, an element that was rather different from the naturalistic style of the time. The style was used mainly in Hamburg.
The paper now has a fairly dry surface for control of hard edges, and yet the paint easily flows onto the paper with no drag or resistance.
After 1640 his austere, harsh, hard edged style was unfavourably compared to the sentimental religiosity of Murillo and Zurbaran's reputation declined. In 1658, he moved to Madrid in search of work and renewed his contact with Velazquez.
4. Dry Brush. In this method you'd use a brush loaded with paint (not too much water), and drag it across totally dry paper. The creates a crisp hard edged effect that stands out in a painting.
Free-flowing (Free form)
Any curvilinear, asymmetrical shape not bound by hard edges.
Functional art
Art designed for a certain purpose.
'For me something like Zobop, the floor piece, it is creating so many edges that they all dissolve. Is the room expanding or contracting? . Covering an object somehow evaporates the hard edge off the thing, and pulls you towards more of a dreamscape.
Vorticism was related to Cubism and Futurism, and like those movements, its momentum was greatly depleted by World War I (1914-1919). While Futurism's imagery typically involved blurred movement, Vorticism's centered on hard edges and angles, ...
Through their efforts, recognition for synthetic cubism, geometric abstraction, neoplasticism, abstract biomorphism, and hard edge was achieved, and the way was paved for the emergence of the New York school of Abstract Expressionism.
In the background, elongated brushstrokes underscore this feeling of line. Compare these hard edges with the loose and sketchy impressionist style of Girl with a Watering Can, where the brushwork and image dissolve in prismatic color.
open form - form with broken or feathered contours; objects with non-specific boundaries as opposed hard edges; compare: painterly *
openwork - perforated or pierced work showing openings through its substance, as wrought-iron or lace ...
 See also: Painting, Movement, Expression, Cubism, Composition
  
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