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Hans Hofmann

Artist/Teacher/Art TheoristAbstract Expressionist

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Vocabulary to Know

• Realistic Art:o Art created with life-like

representationo Can be landscapes, still-life,

portraits, etc.

• Abstract Art:o Began in 1911 with Russian artist,

Wassily Kandinskyo Painting or sculpture that does not

depict a person, place, or thingo Based on what you see

• Color, shapes, brushstrokes, size, scale, and in some cases, the process (action) of painting

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Basket of Fruit, 1599, Oil on canvas

Wassily Kandinsky, Blue Segment, 1921, Oil on canvas

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Vocabulary to Know• Geometric Abstraction:

o Form of abstract art using geometric forms

o Sometimes placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-representational compositions

• Abstract Expressionism:o Painting style that began after

World War II until the early 1960s

o Non-representationalo Mainly improvisational

Robert Delaunay, La Premier Disque, 1912-1913, Oil on canvas

Hans Hofmann, Out of This World, 1945, Gouache on paper

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Abstract Expressionism

• Movement in American painting that flourished in New York City after World War II

• Artist used abstraction to convey strong emotional or expressive content

• Known for large-scale paintings and using non-traditional materials such as house paint

Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-1943, oil on canvas

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Biography

• German-American painter• Teacher• Art theorist• Born: March 21, 1880

o Weissenberg, Bavaria, Germany

• Died: February 17, 1966o New York City, NY, USA

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New YorkGermany

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Important Dates:• 1898 – Studied at

Moritz Heymann’s Art School in Municho Introduced to

Impressionism and Pointillism

• 1904-1910 – Traveled to France to continue studyingo Meets Henri Matisse,

Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay, Georges Braque

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• 1915 – Opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts

• 1932 – Settles in New York

• 1933 – Opened Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Manhattan

• 1942 – Becomes American citizen

Important Dates:

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1956 – Designed mosaic mural for the lobby of the new William Kaufmann Building in New York

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Important Dates:• 1958 – Ended career

as a teacher• 1960 – Represented

the US at the Venice Biennale

• 1964 – Awarded honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from the University of California

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Hans Hofmann the Artist

• Late into Hofmann’s careero His reputation as an artist began to catch up with his reputation as a

teacher

What is the Push-and-Pull Theory?

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• Push-and-Pull Theory developed by Hans Hofmann

• Color and form can create spatial depth and movement in a pictureo Warm colors: moves forwardo Cool colors: moves backwards

• Forms and colors reacting to one another create a visual back and forth in space

Hans Hofmann, Cathedral, 1959, Oil on canvas

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