Colour vs Black & White


COLOUR VS. BLACK AND WHITE

Hard-Edge Abstrac­tion

Dur­ing the 1950s and 60s, partly due to the advent of quick-drying acrylic paints, artists devel­oped a new style of paint­ing called ‘hard-edge geo­met­ric abstrac­tion’. Many painters took an inter­est in spa­tial illu­sion, reti­nal stim­u­la­tion, and psy­che­delic visual lan­guage. A num­ber of Tanabe’s works from the 1960s and early 1970s incor­po­rate vibrant colours and geo­met­ric shapes, for­mu­lat­ing a dia­logue on the visual fea­tures and para­me­ters of landscape.


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