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© The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
At Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century exhibition in 1944 in New York City, German-born Hofmann, a new American citizen, garnered positive attention for his pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism. This painting reflects what a hostile critic in 1946 called the artist’s “spatter-and-daub” free-form approach. It also shows his penchant for bright colors. He was already introducing elements of geometry to his painting, which would increase in his later years. The year 1948 saw the publication of Hofmann’s influential Search for the Real and Other Essays. He ran an important art school in New York City and Provincetown, MA, contemporaneously with Black Mountain College, many of whose faculty were friends and shared aesthetic and philosophical concerns
Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: David Moltke-Hansen, PhD
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