Search for the Real and Other Essays
"The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature ;translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive and every work of art should be alive."Thus Hans Hofmann wrote nearly half a century ago. He left the Old World ;Germany ;for the New, at the age of50. In 1948 when the retrospective exhibition was held at the Addison Gallery of American Art,Hofmann was 68; he had...
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The writings of the "dean of the New York School of Abstract-Expressionist Painting."
