1964, Hans Hofmann, Red Parable -- Stadel Museum (Frankfurt)
From the museum label: Fields of vivid, glowing colour encounter a dynamic brushstroke. Red Parable demonstrates the scope of two principles fundamentally important for twentieth-century painting: monochromy and the expressive gestural "colour explosion". Both the work and the artist link the Old World and the New, Classical Modernism and post-war art. It was in the early thirties that Hofmann emigrated to the U.S., where he was to become one of the Abstract Expressionists' most influential teachers. It was only relatively late in life, after teaching for many years, that he became successful as an artist. Uniting a wide range of styles and anticipating others, his paintings possess a multifaceted and surprising quality. They have lost nothing of their presence, even more than a century after their making.
1964, Hans Hofmann, Red Parable -- Stadel Museum (Frankfurt)
From the museum label: Fields of vivid, glowing colour encounter a dynamic brushstroke. Red Parable demonstrates the scope of two principles fundamentally important for twentieth-century painting: monochromy and the expressive gestural "colour explosion". Both the work and the artist link the Old World and the New, Classical Modernism and post-war art. It was in the early thirties that Hofmann emigrated to the U.S., where he was to become one of the Abstract Expressionists' most influential teachers. It was only relatively late in life, after teaching for many years, that he became successful as an artist. Uniting a wide range of styles and anticipating others, his paintings possess a multifaceted and surprising quality. They have lost nothing of their presence, even more than a century after their making.