Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we different…
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Hans Hofmann
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About Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism. Born and educated near Munich, he was active in the early twentieth-century European avant-garde and brought a deep understanding and synthesis of Symbolism, Neo-impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism when he emigrated to the United States in 1932. Hofmann's painting is character…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Hans HofmannThe ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.