This activity introduces hard-edge abstract painting to students.

1. Intro to Abstract
Painting
Exercise:
Abstract Number Painting

2. Objective:
To learn how to compose an
abstract image
To explore and develop hard-edge
painting
To implement 3 colour harmonies

3. Hard edge painting:
is the application of paint with abrupt or sharp
transitions between colours. This approach to
abstract painting became popular in the 1960s.

4. Hard-edge Artists
& Examples of their Work

5. Frank Stella

6. Victor Vasarely(also known for op art)

7. Robert Indiana

8. Al Held

9. Ellsworth Kelly

10. Brice Marden

11. Kenneth Noland

12. Ad Reinhardt

13. Jack Youngerman

14. Activity:
Abstract Number Painting

15. Step 1: Divide the compositional space into
three spaces vertically and eight spaces horizontally.

16. Step 2: Select a favourite number and create a
list of symbols or words to express the number you chose.

17. Step 3: Select a three colour harmony.
Triadic: This scheme uses three colors. They are evenly
spaced from each other. (example: red, yellow, and blue)

18. Step 3: Select a three colour harmony (cont’d).
Anagalous: This scheme uses
adjacent hues.
(example: red, red-orange, and
red-violet)

19. Step 3: Select a three colour harmony.
Split-complementary: any
hue and the two adjacent to
its complement.
(example: red, yellow-
green, and blue-green)

20. Step 3: Begin applying your colour scheme.
Anagalous? Triadic?OR

21. or split-complementary?

22. Special thanks to Joy for the lesson idea via:
http://arted20.ning.com/

23. Frank Curkovic