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Hans Hofmann Art Quotes
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Hans Hofmann Art Quotes "The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes
to us through the mystic realm of color." -- Hans Hofmann "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
differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony." - Hans Hofmann "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the
unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."- Hans Hofmann The
Abstract Expressionist Movement |
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| Russian artist
Wassily
Kandinsky is considered as the father of abstract art. In 1910
he exhibited the first totally abstract painting - a mysterious
and sensual watercolor.
Abstract art is based upon the idea that the spiritual and emotional
aspect of art must be unchained from the figurative form. The
movement was a rebellion against overwrought portraiture and trite
historical themes. The artists dissociated themselves from
representational art and emphasized emotional colors, non-objective
forms, structure and composition. According to Kandinsky, "One of
the first steps in the turning away from material objects into the realm
of the abstract was, to use the technical artistic term, the rejection
of the third dimension, that is to say, the attempt to keep a picture on a single plane." Abstractionists painted for themselves creating art for arts sake. They worked only from an inner vision and applied paint in a loose, vigorous manner creating beautiful intellectual poems. Abstract Expressionism is a movement that grew out of the abstract style, originating in the United States in after World War II. Painters created vivid art-works in many diverse styles, using a variety of mediums. They emphasized uninhibited personal expression on very large canvases. |
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| Key terms associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement - non-objective, modernism, non representational art, action painting, automatism, individualism, unconscious determinants, contemporary, colour navigation, avant-garde, emotionalism, post-modernism, art concrete, psychoanalysis, inner psyche | ||||||||||||
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Major Painters of the Abstract Expressionist Movement
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