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...clothes. Color first and house after, not house first and color after," he said. Last week his most famous student, Edwin Dickinson, recalled: "More than anyone else, Hawthorne appreciated the fact that plane relationships are better expressed through comparative values of color than through drawing." Adds Abstractionist Hans Hofmann, who became a part of the Provincetown colony in 1934: "As a painter, Hawthorne cast aside every doctrine-so that he might surpass the limitations of calculation and construction...
Order Out of Chaos. Beyond curing the obviously sick, psychologists and psychiatrists evidently must make an effort to teach people not so much to eliminate guilt and anxiety as to understand them and live with them constructively. That is the point made by Hans Hofmann, associate professor of theology at Harvard Divinity School, in a new book called Religion and Mental Health (Harper). Writes Hofmann...
...Painting," Hofmann says, "means forming with color," and he speaks of the oils waiting for him on his palette as if they were musical instruments, "like violins or flutes that I must orchestrate into a symphony." From color, too, comes the sense of shallowness or depth; in abstractions like Hofmann's, the rules of perspective do not apply. In the end. the canvas must seem to breathe...
...Make Magic. Unlike many of his abstractionist colleagues. Hofmann has the virtue of variety. Some of his canvases seem tormented, as if they had been pushed and pulled a bit too hard...
Taking off almost as much paint as he put on, Hofmann managed to achieve the magic he wanted. What could have been static and graceless chunks gradually assume life, like slow-motion dancers in a solemn ballet...