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Married. Dulcie Hofmann Steinhardt, fiftyish, widow of Laurence A. Steinhardt, onetime (1939-41) troubleshooting U.S. Ambassador to Russia who was killed in the crash of an embassy plane while Ambassador to Canada in 1950; and Air Force Major General Lucas V. Beau, 57, national commander of the Civil Air Patrol and wartime commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Transport Service in Africa and Italy; both for the second time; in Rockville Centre...
...movement grows apace; fully a third of Manhattan's art shows reflects it, and more & more art lovers claim to love it. Connoisseurs croon over the "technical mastery" of a Jackson Pollock (who dribbles his colors from pails of paint). They borrow such Hans Hofmann phrases as "push and pull on the picture surface" and "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense" to praise a Hofmann canvas. When Abstractionist Willem de Kooning admits that he is "still working out of doubt," they can hardly bring themselves to believe...
...Hofmann likes bare canvas. To him it is "a perfect expression of 100% volume." But he rips into the plain white with a bull-like energy. One slashing stroke or bright blob deserves another. Each changes the nature of the canvas, and therefore the strategy of attack. Hofmann describes the process as creating "push and pull on the picture surf ace." He insists it is no child's play; it requires "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense...
More & more modern painters and critics agree with Hofmann, revere him as the dean of a fast-growing school of U.S. abstractionists. Such leading lights of the school as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell snub nature, keep their eyes on the canvas and paint nothings like fury...
...Hofmann himself still gets a lot of his ideas from the things he sees around him. But he admits that his most ambitious works are mainly creations of his own imagination. "Canvases from nature I produce very fast," says Hofmann. "Ones from the imagination take a long time...