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Experiments in Abstraction: Art in Southern California, 1945 to 1980, addresses a generation of California-based artists who explored the possibilities of abstraction. In the years following World War II, a distinctive style of art, identified as Hard-Edge painting, was developed by pioneering artists such as Karl Benjamin , Lorser Feitelson , Oskar Fischinger , Helen Lundeberg , and John McLaughlin . In 1959 Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner coined the term Hard-Edge Painting to describe the work of these California painters. Partly a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, best known in the thickly layered paintings of American artists Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock , Hard-Edge emphasized angular lines, reduced forms, precise surfaces, and rich colors. The resulting aesthetic is forever associated with mid-century California Modernism . Beyond the pioneering Hard-Edge painters, other California-based artists, including Charles Arnoldi , Sam Francis , and Ed Ruscha , continued to experiment and transform abstraction on the West Coast. This exhibition, which includes works from the Museums permanent collection and some local loans, explores the diversity of Post-War abstraction in Southern California.
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KünstlerInnen: Karl Benjamin , Lorser Feitelson , Oskar Fischinger , Helen Lundeberg , John McLaughlin , Willem de Kooning , Jackson Pollock , Charles Arnoldi , Sam Francis , Ed Ruscha
