Color Creates Light

Download or read book Color Creates Light written by Tina Dickey and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), renowned painter and master teacher, clarified perennial issues in painting, through his observation of the masters of all cultures.Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmannreveals an astonishing era during which Hofmann's ateliers in Munich, and later in New York and Provincetown, drew talented artists--as well as critics, dealers, collectors, and curators--who in turn transmitted and transmuted his ideas across Europe, America, Canada, and beyond. The decade during which Hofmann painted in Paris before World War I enabled him to explain Cubism to the avant-garde of Munich and New York, catalyzing the later Abstract Expressionism. His interactions with younger generations encouraged the development of some of the most significant artists and educators of the time. Dickey's absorbing account, illustrated with archival photographs and animated by interviews with former students, allows readers the ultimate privilege, to listen as artists talk shop, discussing how Hofmann taught and what he taught--the inner workings of visual language.