Description: This is a visually striking and dynamic Fine Vintage Modern Abstract HARD EDGE Cityscape Freeway CARS Painting, Acrylic and Mixed Media (Wood) on Canvas, depicting a geometrical Hard Edge cityscape scene, with a freeway, cars, and surrounding landscape in San Jose, California. Broad teal and electric blue horizontal lines are visible across the stark white canvas, along with trapezoidal dark green shapes, which represent distant mountains. At the near center of the image, painted on wood, is a dark green background with various freeway scenes rendered in goldenrod hues. These scenes feature automobiles, freeway bridges, and an overhead sign which reads: "Santa Clara St." The only freeway in the United States with a Santa Clara Street offramp is Highway 87 in San Jose, California. Signed: "Hallberg" in graphite on the center vertical crossbar of the verso. I could not find any information on this talented artist, but perhaps you know more about them or their work? Approximately 24 1/4 x 40 1/8 x 2 1/4 inches. Very good overall condition for decades of age and storage, with some mild - moderate scuffing and edge wear, and light dimpling throughout the canvas (please see photos carefully.) Acquired from an old collection 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: 2025-01-20T05:33:31.000Z
Shipping Cost: 45 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Hallberg
Signed By: Hallberg
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Material: Acrylic, Canvas
Region of Origin: California, USA
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Automobile, Billboard, Cityscapes, Community Life, Industrial, Landscape, Monument, On the Road, Silhouettes, Sports Cars, States & Counties, Still Life, Tree, Working Life, San Jose
Type: Painting
Year of Production: 1970
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 24 1/4 in
Style: Abstract, Americana, Contemporary Art, Cubism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Hard Edge, Op Art
Theme: Americana, Architecture, Art, Cities & Towns, Continents & Countries, Exhibitions, People, Social History, Travel & Transportation
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Acrylic Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 40 1/8 in
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1970-1979
