Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmann
Hans Hofmannwas a German-born American abstract expressionist painter...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth21 March 1880
CountryGermany
dispute generally giving nobody
Nobody would dispute that I'm giving him a centrality he doesn't generally have.
spiritual reality self
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
nature creative mind
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
world painting whole-world
Through a painting, we can see the whole world.
spiritual art views
A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
ideas function
A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
passion optimism able
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
illustration two lines
A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure is based on a plane concept. The line originates in the meeting of two planes ... we can lose ourselves in a multitude of lines, if through them we lose our senses for the planes.
discovery feelings genius
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.
spiritual art self
It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
spiritual art mean
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means is missed. Unless the observer is trained to a certain degree in the artistic idiom, he is apt to search for things which have little to do with the aesthetic content of a picture. He is likely to look for pure representational values when the emphasis is really upon music-like relationships.
spiritual artist expression
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
attitude healing optimism
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
spiritual artist expression
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.