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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of ...

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

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time tha...

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Hans Hofmann

Painter

Born: 1880-03-21

Died: 1966-02-17

Hans Hofmann (21 March 1880 – 17 February 1966) was one of the older abstract expressionist painters working in New York. Hofmann originally came from Germany where he experienced the new art and so he connected European with modern American abstract art. He had strong influence as an art-teacher and writer on the younger American abstract artists after 1940.More