Provincetown Artists: Hans Hofmann

The great teacher and practitioner of painterly abstraction spent much of each year in P-town. I love the contrast of the hard-edged elements against the the smeared and fuzzy ones. It took some discipline to leave those edges sharp like that. (Though close inspection reveals a bit of smearing and overlap on those edges, too. I like how the red infringes onto the horizontal yellow rectangle, messing with its purity and "rectitude" just a little bit.) That's an outrageous color palette, isn't it? Learn a bunch about the master here.

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Rising Moon, 1965, Oil on Canvas

OTHERS IN THE P-TOWN ARTISTS SERIES

Michael Mazur, Rocks and Water, monotype

Michael Mazur, Pond Edge II, oil painting

Irene Lipton, untitled oil

Mary Giammarino, impressionist oil