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| On a visit to the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington DC |
Hans Hofmann is one of the most important figures of postwar American art. Celebrated for his exuberant, color-filled canvases, and renowned as an influential teacher for generations of artists—first in his native Germany, then in New York and Provincetown - Hofmann played a pivotal role in the development of Abstract Expressionism.
For the longest time, abstract art didn't quite grab me. But it was a film I watched last year on Mark Rothko, which helped me better understand and appreciate it. It is expression without frame or context. It is expression intended only for what is being expressed: thought or emotion, color or shape. It is expression, purely for experience.
Still, I
love portraits, self or otherwise.
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