A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and em… - Hans Hofmann

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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.

Hans Hofmann

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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 difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Quote in: 'Hans Hofmann', (1986) by Cynthia Goodman, p. 103

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