Description: This is a visually striking and bold Vintage Modern Op Art Geometric Abstract HARD EDGE Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, depicting a geometric hard-edged image of dueling obverse triangular shapes, in hues of pink and white, rendered against a palette of flat gray, with several horizonal lines visible across the lower half of the image. Signed: "Fisher" in the lower right corner and titled: "Penumbra" on the top stretcher bar of the verso. This piece likely dates to the late 1970's - 1980's. I could not find any information on this talented artist, but perhaps you know more about them or their work? Approximately 30 3/4 x 42 1/4 inches (including frame.) Actual artwork is approximately 29 3/4 x 41 inches. Good overall condition for decades of age and storage, with some light scuffing and scratches to the vintage painted wood frame, and a few light creases and pressure marks across the painted surface of the canvas (please see photos carefully.) Acquired in Los Angeles County, California. If you like what you see, I encourage you to make an Offer. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks! About this Artwork: Hard-edge PaintingStarted: 1959Ended: Early 1970sSummary of Hard-edge PaintingHard-edge painting is a tendency in late 1950s and 1960s art that is closely related to Post-painterly abstraction and Color Field Painting. It describes an abstract style that combines the clear composition of geometric abstraction with the intense color and bold, unitary forms of Color Field Painting. Although it was first identified with Californian artists, today the phrase is used to describe one of the most distinctive tendencies in abstract painting throughout the United States in the 1960s.Key Ideas & AccomplishmentsHard-edge abstraction was part of a general tendency to move away from the expressive qualities of gestural abstraction. Many painters also sought to avoid the shallow, post-Cubist space of Willem de Kooning's work, and instead adopted the open fields of color seen in the work of Barnett Newman.Hard-edge painting is known for its economy of form, fullness of color, impersonal execution, and smooth surface planes.The term "hard-edge abstraction" was devised by Californian art critic Jules Langsner and was initially intended to title a 1959 exhibition that included four West Coast artists - Karl Benjamin, John McLaughlin, Frederick Hammersley and Lorser Feitelson. Although, later, the style was often referred to as "California hard-edge," and these four artists became synonymous with the movement, Langsner eventually decided to title the show Four Abstract Classicists (1959), as he felt that the style marked a classical turn away from the romanticism of Abstract Expressionism.
Price: 1350 USD
Location: Orange, California
End Time: 2024-12-01T00:56:18.000Z
Shipping Cost: 45 USD
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Artist: Fisher
Signed By: Fisher
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Period: Contemporary (1970 - 2020)
Title: "Penumbra"
Material: Acrylic, Canvas
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Framed
Subject: Monument, Geometry
Type: Painting
Year of Production: 1980
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 42 1/4 in
Theme: Architecture, Art, Exhibitions, Science & Medicine
Style: Abstract, Cubism, Expressionism, Hard Edge, Modernism, Op Art
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Acrylic Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Handmade: Yes
Item Width: 30 3/4 in
Time Period Produced: 1980-1989