"Painters must speak through paint, not through words." Before he really kickstarted off the career he is known for, Hofmann taught at the Art Students League in New York City and later opened his very own Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art where he, too, influenced many young artists. He then dropped his teaching career in 1930's so that he could focus on his own painting career and left behind his Expressionistic landscapes and still lifes that were much of his early work. He dived into his painting and evolved over time as a artists and started to have a significant style which he is now known for. Hofmann generally creates canvases which look like collections of forms and colors, but the suggestion of movement and the meaning behind it is Hofmann's choosing. In fact, he is renowned for his ideas and believes that painters such as him should speak through the paint and their ideas shouldn't be blatantly shown in their art through words. Hofmann mostly worked on a flat canvas, but he is famous for the depth of his surfaces on his paintings. He uses a concept he calls "push and pull" in the image which suggests depth and movement in the picture. Hans Hofmann was most significantly influenced by Matisse's use of color and Cubism's displacement of form. Over the years, he has grown from his early landscapes to his "slab paintings" and now his abstract works at the end of his career around 1966 where his paintings began to scream his bold use of color and combinations.
Questions: 1. Which artists influenced Hans Hofmann most significantly after he moved to the United States and how did it affect his art? Which major artists did he teach? 2. Explain Hofmann's theory of "push and pull" (see video and pbs site) and how does he incorporate 'surface' in his works? Give 3 examples of where he uses depth and movement to accentuate a piece. 3. Which 3 artists movements/styles most significantly impacted his work and how?
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