Right Angled Abstractions Mondrian and Hoffman

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944 Dutch 1940 emigrated to New York city

Mondrian in his New York Studio, 1942-43 Photo Fritz Glarner. 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 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

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

Golden Wall 1964 http://www.hanshoffman.com/

http://www.hanshoffman.com/ Autumn Gold 1957

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

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

Song of the Nightingale (1404HOFM#) Hans Hoffman H Schwartz Collection, New York http://www.mentone-educational.com.au/product/r_artprints/c_abstract/1404HOFM