Liberation
Artist:
Hans Hofmann
(American, born Germany, 1880 - 1966)
Place made:United States
Date: 1947
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
60 x 50 in. (152.4 x 127 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Lenora and Walter F. Brown
Object number: 80.172
Copyright: © Estate of Hans Hofmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Label Text
Liberation represents a style called “biomorphic abstraction,” which was popularized by the Surrealists, a group interested in the images found in dreams and the unconscious. Hofmann, the first artist to be labeled an “Abstract Expressionist” by an art critic, explored the style for a brief period. Hans Hofmann viewed the internal rhythms of a painting the same way physicists understand the dynamics of movement in physical space: that for every movement of a line in one direction, the painter should make a mark of equal force in the opposite direction, and for any color that seems to advance into the viewer’s space, it should be countered with a color that appears to recede.
(Anna Stothart, 2016)
(Anna Stothart, 2016)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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This resource has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor.
