Hard-Edge Painting
ハードエッジ・ペインティング / 1959–1970s / Style / Geometric Abstraction
Peinture qui maintient des limites parfaitement nettes et ne compose le tableau qu'avec des plans de couleur uniformes. Ni touche ni dégradé : le bord du plan coloré est le seul événement. Cette arête exacte, obtenue au ruban de masquage, est l'ancêtre direct du flat design et de l'expression vectorielle.
Bords de couleur parfaitement nets / Aplats sans dégradé / Peu de grands plans de couleur / La forme même détermine le support
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- Identity and signage systems that must survive at any scale in flat colour, with no gradient or shadow left to reproduce badly · Interface and icon work built on hard vector silhouettes, where legibility is purely a function of edge and area
- Typographie
- A geometric sans in a single weight, treated as a flat plane of its own and aligned to the same edges as the colour.
- Composition
- Two to four fields dividing the format, with the division placed off any obvious fraction so the areas stay in tension.
- Matière
- Flat, opaque, unmodulated colour with the edge cut mechanically, showing neither overlap nor a light halo.
- Précaution
- Softening one edge for depth: a single feathered boundary reintroduces illusionistic space, and the picture reverts to being a picture of something.
- Pour approfondir
- Jules Langsner's coining of the term in 1959 / Its development into the shaped canvas / The psychological effect of plane and edge