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Hard-edge painting refers to an oil painting style that is associated with various movements and features that an abrupt transition between areas of solid color includes many different painting techniques.

In response to some of the forms of abstract expressionism, hard-edge painting rather developed a movement in its own right, but a trend that first found in many artists who grouped, keep, 1959 at the Los Angeles County Museum of art "Four abstract classicists." the artists who participated in this exhibition were called an exhibition of the art form John McLaughlin, Frederick Hammersley, Lorser Feitelson and Karl Benjamin.

If the exhibition later moved to the United Kingdom, it was also "California hard edge" by Lawrence Alloway, British art curator and critic after California pulled Center and birthplace of this type of oil painting. Coined the term "hard-edge painting" actually times Jules Langsner 1959 Los Angeles by Peter Selz and art critic for the, involved in the implementation of cooperation of artists for the first representative exhibition this form of painting.

Even before that representative exhibition are works of hard-edge painting to pursuing American artist Josef Albers (1888-1976) - Bauhaus artist who began his series of oil paintings in Asheville, North Carolina's Black Mountain College in 1949 - and Ellsworth Kelly's 1949 work from his private collection, window, Museum of art, Paris. Another early example is "Counter Composition V" (1924) by Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), the Dutch painter and founder of the De Stijl movement.

Hard-edge painting is characterized by not only abrupt acrylic or oil blends, but also the theme of painting, the dominating the entire screen. According to Lawrence Alloway "the whole picture is one..." Unlike most other forms of painting, it is not the appearance or feel like the theme, placed in a scenario or background. There is generally no free space in a hard-edge painting. The most common acrylic or oil paints be used with the number of sounds on two or three limited and solid colors without variations in the shade. Sharp and precise contours, wide light areas and representation of geometric shapes rather than abstract images are distinctive features of hard-edge style.

Hard-edge painting has many influences in movements such as synthetic Cubism, geometric abstraction, colour field painting, Bauhaus and De Stijl. Arising from color field post-painterly abstraction is hard-edge painting a branch.

Since the first 1959 exhibition spread hard-edge painting in the 1960s with artists to create in the West Coast and Eastern of seaboard representational works hard-edge style. The most famous works include Ellsworth Kelly's "Broadway" (1958), "blue, green, yellow, orange and Red" (1966) and "Dark Blue Curve" (1995), Frank Stella's "Hyena Stomp" (1962) and "Harran II" (1967) and Richard Anuszkiewicz's "Temple of the radiant yellow" (1982).

Hard-edge painting has a form adopted by many artists established itself as an important form of modern art, which has absorbed influences from many movements and yet developed. A recent exhibition in 2005 in Los Angeles shows its continued popularity.