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...time of making a picture," says Painter Hans Hofmann, 71, "I want not to know what I'm doing; a picture should be made with feeling, not with knowing . . . A shape can be sad or gay, a line delirious...
...Hofmann's latest paintings, sad, gay and delirious, were on display last week in a Manhattan gallery. Drunken trapezoids in blinding reds and blues lurched against whirling, multicolored backgrounds. Blobs of oil streaked across canvases like Technicolor comets, leaving woozy hexagons and rectangles in their wake...
...sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...
Dean of the protesting group is 70-year-old Hans Hofmann, a compelling teacher for whom painting means "forming with color ... At the time of making a picture. I want not to know what I'm doing; a picture should be made with feeling, not with knowing ... A shape can be sad or gay, a line, delirious." William Baziotes, who recently sold a painting called Dragon...
...must become a pianist," Paderewski told him. "You have such beautiful hair." In time, Harold Bauer, who had started as a violinist, did become a pianist, certain that he had chosen the most glamorous occupation in the world. He was one of the shiniest stars of the Hofmann-Schnabel generation, which broke from the grand, pernicious influence of Liszt with its dazzling displays of pianistic fireworks. Bauer found that the life was not all bows and bravos. In an amiable, rambling autobiography (Harold Bauer: His Book; Norton, $3.75), the 75-year-old pianist tells what it was like...