hard-edge

[ hahrd-ej ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of abstract painting associated with the 1960s and marked chiefly by sharply outlined geometric or nongeometric forms.

hard-edge

adjective

1. of, relating to, or denoting a style of painting in which vividly coloured subjects are clearly delineated

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard-edge¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

The book describes his affair with a white woman, his dreamlike, highly symbolic murder of an albino Indian, and an interlude in Los Angeles among hard-edge but nostalgic urban Native Americans and a trickster-like shamanic figure.

From New York Times

This work, which appeared at Martos Gallery in New York last year, would be funny anywhere, but in the context of a proper gallery in Manhattan shows Guyton gleefully mixing highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics, hard-edge abstraction from the Neo-Geo movement, with the beret-and-palette caricature of the chain-smoking artist, all through his signature urban materials.

From New York Times

He shares the deeply conservative ideology of his mentor Mr. Jordan but lacks the confrontational profile or hard-edge style of the Ohioan.

From New York Times

In the 2010s, he was part of a wave of producers seeking out intersections between underground electronic music and mainstream hip-hop, splicing chopped-up rap vocals with hard-edge synth stabs.

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But on another level, the stunt showed that Mr. Sunak’s brand of hard-edge politics was hitting home in Britain.

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