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What type of art is Ellsworth Kelly known for?

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He began to create relief sculptures and multipanel paintings, formats that remained features of his work. He became known in the 1950s and 60s for his hard-edge paintings, formal, impersonal compositions painted in flat areas of color, usually with sharp contours and geometric shapes. Increasingly large, some were conventional rectangular canvases, some made up of several single-color panels joined to make triangles, trapezoids.

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