I was surprised to see how recent some of these are! I had kind of assumed that this sort of paradigm had become unfashionable. I really like a lot of these.
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Thursday, 5 August 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
remodernism
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
that was a joke btw
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.corvi-mora.com/richardaldrich/big/25.jpg
http://www.corvi-mora.com/richardaldrich/big/29.jpg
a couple more aldriches but its really worth pointing out that hard edged abstraction and the monochrome are explicitly not an organising motif w/n his work but that he is super interesting and cool.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
that second last one is like a via motherwell thing but its the specific kind of ambivalence that he has abt his sources that i totally relate to
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread = joy <3
once the barcode printer at work malfunctioned and printed me a collection of overlapping b+w stripes which was pretty rad in a sub-Bridget Riley sort of way, wonder if I still have it
― rah rah rah wd smash the oiks (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
did any of these dudes crossover to commercial work?http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/creativelogos20.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
wasnt ibm milton glaser?
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
bridget riley's paintings got ripped off and used as fabric prints and she was hella pissed off?
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
josef albers worked as a designer and wolfgang tillmans as a commercial photographer otherwise i dont know but for the most part no
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
well not exactly, tillmans did magazine work but never like fashion or commercial photography sorry
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
from http://ibmcollectables.com/ibmlogo.html:"Although this logo was reported to have been introduced by Paul Rand in 1960 and again in 1962, it was considered to "far out" by the brass and was not to be seen by the general public until 1967"
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
idk why i thought glaser
― plax (ico), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm just imagining an ibm exec looking at it going, "you crazy kids... hopped up on stripes"
it just seemed like the idea of tying up a corporate identity with a specific shade of blue would have to come from the art world.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 5 August 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
latest aldriches are mad dope
am convincing T to start more art threads on The Church - anyone else in favour say something
― let it sb (acoleuthic), Thursday, 5 August 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
hadnt seen these thomas nozkowskis until they posted one on ctrl+w33d of all places but they fit here i guess
http://www.dolanmaxwell.com/artists/nozkowski/images/untitled7.jpg
http://www.dolanmaxwell.com/artists/nozkowski/images/Untitled_1_2008.jpg
― plax (ico), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Would Diebenkorn count?
http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l2_grnfthrs_fldr/g0000_gr_inf_images/g090a_diebenkorn_oceanpk54.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.pada.net/Photos/34/Full/Touched%20Red.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Monday, 9 August 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Brice Marden?
http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction/l3_more_artists/ma000_more_artists_images/ma86_marden_cold_mtn_ptg.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Monday, 9 August 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Really wanna post some of Philip Guston's Ab Ex. stuff, but while being monochromatic is not really "hard-edged".
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Monday, 9 August 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
El Lissitzky
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6yyl3DDf91qaumj5o1_500.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
de Stael
http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/asm2_img_bebomb2.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
btw 80% of those r not hard edged
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.deutscherandhackett.com/catalogue16/images/large/D&H_005.jpg
Rosalie Gascoigne. A lot of her work was made from old road signs.
― jabulani hands (S-), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I think we need a general thread on abstraction.
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
That Brice Marden above is obviously not hard edged, but dude does have some monochromes in him:
http://images.nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/marden061030_2_560.jpg
― I'm banishing you to a time warp from which you will never return (EDB), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://s3.artknowledgenews.com/files/BriceMardenForPearl.jpg
i coulda sworn i posted this upthread, idk, i did post a pretty awesome video of him talking abt bob dylan painting
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
such an awesome painter in all phases tho, i kinda go back and forth about when i like him most
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
plax who did the first yellow painting at the top of the thread?
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
richard aldrich
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bortolamigallery.com/artists/richard-aldrich/
Thanks! This thread has also made me interested in Ellsworth Kelly. The Art Institute museum has some of his work. I'm gonna try and go this week.
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
ellsworth kelly is pretty unbelievable tbh
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
This Aldrich painting really reminds me of Guston's mid-period work:
http://www.bortolamigallery.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/aldrich_7.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
not hard-edged, obv.
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
plax, can you talk a bit about where something might or might not be called hard edged? is it as simple as it might suggest, i.e. minimum of colours, simplest geometry, etc etc. i'd been reading about it online just a few days before finding this thread, but i couldn't find any helpful definitions. could Tomma Abts be hard-edged, for example? or would it kind of redundant to split hairs on such differences now?
Tomma Abtshttp://re-title.com/public/mailimages/November08-painting/Tomma-Abts.jpg
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
that's probably not the best example from her work. i'm guessing not, anyway.
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
This style has an almost intellectual approach, as compared to the spontaneous and emotional approach seen in Abstract Expressionism. Hard-edge paintings reflect calculated and impersonal feel. These paintings sometimes seem machine generated, owing to their being very precise and explicitly expression in the form of straight lines. Frank Stella aptly described the Hard-edge painting style by saying, "What you see is what you see."
that'll do. as you were...
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i guess the simplest definition of hard edged abstraction is that it requires clean transitions from one area of flat colour to the next. I guess its seen as being paradigmatic of modernism, that it somehow inherently expresses something about painting in its purest form. Obv I think this is pretty problematic when you look at its origins in russian constructivism or the bauhaus where there it obviously shares a history w/ graphic design or its reappropriation or subversion later gens including (arguably) eg. Abts or even in its Post-Painterly Abstraction heyday when someone like Ellsworth Kelly seemed to be making things that were highly coded w/ a Pop sensibility. I think this thread is a better history though because it is images.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Ellsworth Kelly is my favorite painter ever.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Re: Ellsworth Kelley love: OTM!
― I'm banishing you to a time warp from which you will never return (EDB), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
My favourite work of his was already posted, but what the hay:
http://liannemscott.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/ellsworth_kelly_spectrum-vi-in-13-parts.jpg
― I'm banishing you to a time warp from which you will never return (EDB), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
yah better img tho!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
prize for most wtf omission so far goes to ruth root btw
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/RUTH_ROOT_002-500x333.jpg
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean for real
http://www.hmorikawa.com/RR1.jpg
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.arteinformado.com/documentos/eventos/16064/Untitled,_2008.jpg
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Jean Arp
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000101/141056_863060.jpg
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Thursday, 12 August 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
so the barnett newman from the OP has been in the art press a lot lately bc of the controversy over the director of the national gallery of canada. this "secret history" essay from greg.org is hilarious and really interesting. good read.
http://greg.org/archive/2010/08/18/voice_of_the_taxpayer_1990_by_john_czupryniak.html
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Lately, as in like, this year?
If you study art history in Canada, as I do, you hear about the VOF controversy non-stop. I actually had a class once that was solely dedicated to it.
― Garth December, virulent food critic (EDB), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Subtitles kind of ruin it, but you get the picture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVaC3XKSi5M&feature=related
― EDB, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link