monochromes and hard edged abstraction

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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

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

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

btw 80% of those r not hard edged

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/

plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link

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 Abts
http://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

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

four weeks pass...

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

A spot of Palazuelo iydm

http://www.artenovance.com/images/lithographie-estampe-originale-pablo-palazuelo-03_460.jpg

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.artespain.com/wp-content/uploads/palazuelo2.jpg

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link

missing notable ilx poster plaxico

Matt P, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:29 (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, August 24, 2010 11:01 PM (1 month ago)

i didn't mean the voices of fire controversy was recent. there have been calls for the director of the museum to resign and shit in the last year. its been all over the blogs. every country has a public uproar over meaningless modern art controversy (cf. the tate and equivalent vii for eg.) but the greg.org thing is really funny.

plax (ico), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link

not so much that somebody "did their own newman" there's always some db, but the critical reception.

plax (ico), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link

thats been bothering me. btw i'm going to this show tomorrow:

http://calgaryculture.com/content/softcore-hard-edge

plax (ico), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCOn5q5QYc

plax (ico), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCOn5q5QYc

plax (ico), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/2633d783.jpg

sherrie levine

plax (ico), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGwbGjbtjQQ&feature

plax (ico), Thursday, 11 November 2010 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Ok wow this thread. I think I'm getting really into this sort of stuff.

cowboy bibimbap (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 24 December 2010 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link


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