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Denver-born Robert Beauchamp, 38, studied under Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, but in 1953 returned to the figure. "It was an emotional thing," he says. "I felt abstract art was too remote from immediate life, that I had to wear blinkers when I walked out onto the street." His use of color goes back to the German expressionists ("I reverted to what had preceded Hofmann"), but the fantasy is all Beauchamp. His creatures crouch or dance in junglelike settings, seem often to be engaged in some sort of orgy. Beauchamp is unable to explain why his fantasy takes the direction...
Prof. Hans Hofmann of the Divinity School will speak to the parents at the morning service of Memorial Church...
...Spain, to Lisbon, and finally to the U.S. He worked as a dishwasher, a factory worker, a day-camp instructor; but in 1945 he decided to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Art Students League, six months later switched to the school run by Hans Hofmann, the most influential teacher of U.S. abstract expressionism. But Müller could not follow so doctrinaire a master for long...
...which, as a gesture of gratitude to the public he "loves like a woman," he plans to unpack the most cherished contents of his "musical valise." The series will do more than demonstrate the impeccable artistry of the world's most legendary virtuoso. Like the late great Josef Hofmann's remarkable series of concerts in Petrograd, Russia, in 1913, it will, by comparison, illuminate the defects and virtues of the men who stand with Rubinstein as the greatest living players of the piano. The list is not long; it includes only three more: Rudolf Serkin, Vladimir Horowitz...
...Memorial Church announces its list of preachers for Vesper Services each Sunday at 8 p.m.: Dr. Hans F. Hofmann, Harvard Divinity School (July 9): Dr. Heiko A. Oberman, Divinity School (July 16); the Rev. Robert C. Dodds, Second Congregational Church of Waterbury, Conn. (July 23); Dr. J. Lawrence Burk-holder, Divinity School (July 30); the Rev. E. Spencer Parsons, Hyde Park Baptist Church of Chicago (August 6); and Dr. Aarne Siirala, former Director of the Lay Academy, Church of Finland...