There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations. - Hans Hofmann

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There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

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About Hans Hofmann

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.

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Alternative Names: Hans Georg Albert Hofmann Johann Georg Albert Hofmann Johann Hofmann Hans Hoffman Hofmann
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The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

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Robert Motherwell: Would you say that a fair statement of your position is that the 'meaning' of a work of art consists of the relations among the elements, and not the elements themselves? Hofmann: Yes, that I would definitely say. You make a thin line and a thick line. It is the same with geometrical shapes. It is all relationship. Without all these relationships it is not possible to express higher art.

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