Hardedge Line Painting
Lorser Feitelson
In the late 50s and early 60s in California, a group of artists reacted against the gestural, painterly style of abstract expression to create a new genre known as ‘Hard-Edge Painting’. It is as the name suggests defined by abrupt transitions from one plane of colour to another, decisive and sudden with no gentle movement. At the heart of this burgeoning movement was Lorser Feitelson who distilled the abstract forms of figurative art into evocative, hypnotic, and ambiguous compositions. A working artist since 1945, Feitelson’s career reads as a microcosm of art history, moving from Cubism to surrealism, to abstraction and finally to the style that defined him and offered him the home he had been searching for, Hard-Edge painting. Feitelson was informed by the biomorphic curves of the body and of the nature around him but reduced it into simple formal elements. His work is one of geometric beauty, elegantly proportioned and sensuous in its clarity.
Friday 28th August
Today we arrive at the Full Moon, and also a lunar eclipse, as the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon, casting its shadow across the Moon in the early hours and turning much of its surface a deep copper-red. This month we welcome the Sturgeon Moon, named after the large freshwater fish that were traditionally most readily caught at this time of year. The Full Moon in Aquarius brings us to a culmination in the synodic cycle of the Moon. Outside of our material lives, bound by the clock and the Gregorian calendar, for time immemorial the Moon would have been one of the ways in which we tracked time. Many ancient sites around the world have encoded the Moon’s cycles into the stones and pillars that still stand today.
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