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Mondrian and Hoffman
Right Angled Abstractions
• Piet Mondrian
• 1872-1944
• Dutch
• 1940 emigrated to New York city
Extract from a letter by Mondrian to H.P.Bremmer, critic and teacher. Circa 1913-14.
'Nature (or what I see) inspires me, gives me, as it does virtually every painter, the emotion from which the urge derives to create something. But I want to approach truth as closely as possible,
and thus I abstract everything until I come to the essence (always the external essence!) of things.'
This photograph of the high-minded, austere young artist was taken 2 years before Mondrian began work on 'Sun, Church in
Zeeland.'Mondrian in his New York Studio, 1942-43
Photo Fritz Glarner.
• Mondrian, L'Arbre rouge, 70 x 99, 1909, Haags Gementemuseum, La Haye.
• Mondrian, Le Pommier en fleur, 78 x 106, 1912, Haags Gementemuseum, La Haye.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/gray-lt-brown.jpg
Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue 1921; Oil on canvas, 39 x 35 cm http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/images/mondrian-compositionA.jpg
Piet Mondrian, Composition A, 1923 Oil on canvas (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome)
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/broadway.jpg
• Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-43; Oil on canvas, 127 x 127 cm; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Piet Mondrian
• Pictures using a rectangular composition, but all kinds of wild and completely non-Mondrian colors
• (You can do this in your pictures that Dr. Flax is planning on having you do.)
• http://www.mysticfractal.com/2dfractals/mondrian.jpg
• http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-98-fall/Programs/Mondrian/mondrian.gif
Hans Hoffman
• Born in Bavaria (Germany) in 1880
• Moved to Paris in 1904
• Emigrated to United States in mid 1930’s
• Died 1966
• Push Pull
• http://www.artisticforum.com/HansHoffman.gif
• "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - - Hans Hofmann
• Golden Wall1964
• http://www.hanshoffman.com/
• http://www.hanshoffman.com/
• Autumn Gold1957
• http://www.nearbycafe.com/artandphoto/copenhagen/images/hoffman_goliath_lge.gif
• http://www.shanegarton.com/Capra_7_Art_Studio/Htmls/hoffman_html/hoffman_images/hans_hoffman.jpg
• Song of the Nightingale (1404HOFM#)
Hans HoffmanH Schwartz Collection, New York
http://www.mentone-educational.com.au/product/r_artprints/c_abstract/1404HOFM