Hard-Edge Painting
ハードエッジ・ペインティング / 1959–1970s / Style / Geometric Abstraction
把边界保持得完全锐利，仅以平坦色面构成画面的绘画。笔触与渐层被排除，色面的边缘成为唯一的事件。以遮蔽胶带做出的精确边缘，正是此后扁平化设计与矢量表现的直接祖先。
完全锐利的色面边界 / 没有渐层的平涂 / 数量有限的大块色面 / 形状本身决定支撑体的外形
辞典词条
- 适用场景
- 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
- 字体
- A geometric sans in a single weight, treated as a flat plane of its own and aligned to the same edges as the colour.
- 版面
- Two to four fields dividing the format, with the division placed off any obvious fraction so the areas stay in tension.
- 材料
- Flat, opaque, unmodulated colour with the edge cut mechanically, showing neither overlap nor a light halo.
- 注意
- Softening one edge for depth: a single feathered boundary reintroduces illusionistic space, and the picture reverts to being a picture of something.
- 延伸阅读
- Jules Langsner's coining of the term in 1959 / Its development into the shaped canvas / The psychological effect of plane and edge