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 (thirteen years ago) link
El Lissitzky
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6yyl3DDf91qaumj5o1_500.jpg
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 05:16 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
btw 80% of those r not hard edged
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 10:43 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
I think we need a general thread on abstraction.
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 14:02 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
richard aldrich
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:35 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
ellsworth kelly is pretty unbelievable tbh
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:48 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
not hard-edged, obv.
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 15:51 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Ellsworth Kelly is my favorite painter ever.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:01 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
yah better img tho!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:50 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean for real
http://www.hmorikawa.com/RR1.jpg
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.arteinformado.com/documentos/eventos/16064/Untitled,_2008.jpg
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 11 August 2010 17:57 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Brasil!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-BSH_BgAs/SE00vPh28hI/AAAAAAAAA1E/G07_lt5YE6Q/s400/Helio+Oiticica+Women+Management+Blog.jpghttp://www.minusspace.com/logimages2008/moma-newperspectives.jpghttp://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2009dic/Helio-Oiticica-Grupo-Frente-24.jpg
― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:15 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.archeles.es/img/palazuelo_sig01_g.jpg http://www.archeles.es/img/palazuelo_sig02_g.jpg http://www.archeles.es/img/palazuelo_sig03_g.jpg
http://www.artespain.com/wp-content/uploads/palazuelo2.jpg
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
missing notable ilx poster plaxico
― Matt P, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCOn5q5QYc
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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
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
how have i just now seen this thread??
― oOoOO on the TLC tip (donna rouge), Monday, 17 January 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.kuttnersiebert.de/artists/haggerty/pics/haggerty2010/hagg10-002.jpg
what the fuck who is this tell me everything about this
― vienn?tta (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 27 January 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://boldongrey.at/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/gerwald_rockenschaub_01.jpg
Gerwald Rockenschaub
― plax (ico), Monday, 14 February 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_9zr8whTw
― plax (ico), Monday, 11 April 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I love plax. Also this thread. Also monochromes and hard edged abstraction.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Xpost: I saw Ray Gun Virus at the MOMA a few days ago. Absolutely mesmerizing. I love Sharits, and seeing his work in person, projected in full size, and in a dark room, with the sound of the projector there, is a totally different (i.e. much more affective) experience.
― EDB, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link