HansHofmann

Anotações para

“Hans Hofmann: análise do conceito de ‘avanço e recuo’ das cores em um quadro do artista” [1]

“The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color”

• 1880-1966
• artista/professor, professor/artista
• Berkeley em 1930

“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, I improvise… I deny theory and method and rely only on empathy and feeling. In teaching, it is just the opposite, I must account for every line, shape and color. One is forced to explain the inexplicable.”

• teorias próprias sobre cor e composição
  • “avanço e recuo” da cor como forma de quebrar o plano pictórico sem recorrer aos recursos tradicionais

“… ‘push and pull’: the visual tension between forces and counter-forces that gives the viewer the experience of depth and motion on a flat surface”