Untitled — Fine Art

Untitled - 1968 by Leon Polk Smith uses clean flat colour planes set beside one another on a quiet ground. The picture sits within the artist wider practice of hard edge abstraction, where sharp edges and simple colour blocks do the work.

The fine art frame gives this image a clear edge on the wall. Choose white, wood, dark wood or black to set how the frame sits against the colour planes. A white frame keeps the joins open. A black frame pulls the eye toward the line where the tones meet.

It fits well on a kitchen wall beside a row of shelves. From the table you see the hard colour joins first. Step closer and the flat tones read as simple blocks of paint. The clear edge keeps the picture tidy against the busy shelving.