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...director of the art galleries of the University of California, Wight finds time for painting, teaching and writing all at once. This fall his latest novel (a fictional account of Modigliani's life) will appear, and his latest traveling show (of Abstractionist Hans Hofmann) will open at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Typically, Wight feels embarrassed by his varied successes. "Idon't kid myself " he says in his customary murmur, squinting as if at a disappearing bird. "This showing all over the country, or flying all over creation, is not a virtue. It's a symptom...
...contemporaries. Tobey's Transit, for example, relates to no objective visual experience at all, unless it be that of images swimming in the tight-shut eye. Hartley's German Officer deals with a mood, not a visual image. Davis' Eggbeater beats the eggbeater into unrecognizable shape. Hofmann's Red Trickle celebrates an activity rather than a perception. Dove's Abstraction is a generalization of nature, flat yet elusive. Feininger's Gelmeroda multiplies and rearranges what he saw to create an altogether new equation. O'Keeffe's From the Plains is emotion reduced...
...Hans Hofmann, 75, was trained as an academic painter in Germany, later chummed with Paris' cubists. He made his name as a teacher, opened his own art school in Manhattan in 1934. Five years later he produced Red Trickle, which Dealer Sam Kootz calls the first application of the drip technique to painting. His art and thought have done as much as any man's to shape today's abstract expressionism, though never did an elderly, experienced and serious-minded teacher manage to seem so untaught...
...Josef Hofmann Golden Jubilee Concert (Columbia). Six Chopin works and four other romantic numbers, played in 1937 by one of the few men (now 79) who could always make the piano exciting. Even after 50 years of concertizing in the U.S. (he began at eleven, in 1887), and through the crackling of a bad recording, his elegance, fleetness, playfulness, aptness are astonishing...
Hash Slingers & Barkeeps. The plight of Painter du Casse is typical of most Western artists. After getting an M.A. in art at the University of California on the G.I. bill, Du Casse took a year in Paris, polished off at Hans Hofmann's strong hold of abstract art in New York. But back in San Francisco with a wife and two children to support, Du Casse had to take a job as a furniture salesman, now paints only on his days...