Mondrian and Hoffman

Right Angled Abstractions

• Piet Mondrian

• 1872-1944

• Dutch

• 1940 emigrated to New York city

Extract from a letter by Mondrian to H.P.Bremmer, critic and teacher. Circa 1913-14.

'Nature (or what I see) inspires me, gives me, as it does virtually every painter, the emotion from which the urge derives to create something. But I want to approach truth as closely as possible,

and thus I abstract everything until I come to the essence (always the external essence!) of things.'

This photograph of the high-minded, austere young artist was taken 2 years before Mondrian began work on 'Sun, Church in

Zeeland.'Mondrian in his New York Studio, 1942-43

Photo Fritz Glarner.

• Mondrian, L'Arbre rouge, 70 x 99, 1909, Haags Gementemuseum, La Haye.

• Mondrian, Le Pommier en fleur, 78 x 106, 1912, Haags Gementemuseum, La Haye.

                                                        

                      

                                                 

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/gray-lt-brown.jpg

Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue 1921; Oil on canvas, 39 x 35 cm http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/images/mondrian-compositionA.jpg

Piet Mondrian, Composition A, 1923 Oil on canvas (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome)

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/broadway.jpg

• Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942-43; Oil on canvas, 127 x 127 cm; The Museum of Modern Art, New York

• Piet Mondrian

• Pictures using a rectangular composition, but all kinds of wild and completely non-Mondrian colors

• (You can do this in your pictures that Dr. Flax is planning on having you do.)

• http://www.mysticfractal.com/2dfractals/mondrian.jpg

• MysticFractal@comcast.net

• http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-98-fall/Programs/Mondrian/mondrian.gif

Hans Hoffman

• Born in Bavaria (Germany) in 1880

• Moved to Paris in 1904

• Emigrated to United States in mid 1930’s

• Died 1966

• Push Pull

• http://www.artisticforum.com/HansHoffman.gif

• "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - - Hans Hofmann

• Golden Wall1964

• http://www.hanshoffman.com/

• http://www.hanshoffman.com/

• Autumn Gold1957

• http://www.nearbycafe.com/artandphoto/copenhagen/images/hoffman_goliath_lge.gif

• http://www.shanegarton.com/Capra_7_Art_Studio/Htmls/hoffman_html/hoffman_images/hans_hoffman.jpg

• Song of the Nightingale (1404HOFM#)

Hans HoffmanH Schwartz Collection, New York

http://www.mentone-educational.com.au/product/r_artprints/c_abstract/1404HOFM