Hard edge painting

Hard Edge Paintings — Anna Núñez Fine Art

Al Held (Brooklyn, New York, October 12, 1928 - near Camerata, Italy, July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art form. In the 1950s his style reflected the abstract expressionist tone and then transitioned to a…

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"the aim of every artist is to arrest motion…" -Faulkner

Cheryl Hayman on Instagram: “20/52 A simple little hard edge painting. I like it, but I’m not compelled to build on the ideas behind it. Maybe one day. #hardedge…”

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Learn how to use hard, soft, and lost edges to define a subject and create transitions between shapes. Everything a painter needs to know to paint edges in a descriptive way and create good transitions between shapes that guide the eye of the viewer through the picture plane.