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Hard-edge

Hard-edge painting[1] is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas Color areas are often of one unvarying color The Hard-edge painting style is related to Geometric abstraction, Op Art, Post-painterly Abstraction, and Color Field painting[2]The term was coined by writer, curator and Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959,[3] to describe the work of painters from California, who, in their reaction to the more painterly or gestural forms of Abstract expressionism, adopted a knowingly impersonal paint application and delineated areas of color with particular sharpness and clarity This approach to abstract painting became widespread in the 1960s, though California was its creative center

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Other, earlier, movements, or styles have also contained the quality of Hard-edgedness, for instance the Precisionists also displayed this quality to a great degree in their work Hard-edge can be seen to be associated with one or more school of painting, but is also a generally descriptive term, for these qualities found in any painting Hard-edged painting can be both figurative or nonrepresentational


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