Comments on: Messing with a Hans Hofmann

By: Laura Tyler

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:09:54 +0000

Lovely, audacious dream! Playful. Wicked. Inspiring actually. (Makes me want to paint.) Thank you for sharing. Love the image too – those expressionistic brushstrokes in the lower left totally do it for me. Laura

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By: Alyson B. Stanfield

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:19:36 +0000

Sari: I once graded an entire undergrad paper ABOUT Hofmann and the student misspelled the name throughout. Bad presentation. As for Provincetown, yes! It’s very much still an artists’ community. Cynthia: Big events. Check. Got a boat load of them in the next two weeks. Interesting. Casey: Of course The Colorist has to appreciate Hofmann! Yvonne: This is all very interesting. I never would have put the two together, but it sounds like you know what you’re talking about. Sharon: I don’t think I saw my process in the dream. I had a brush in my hand and then suddenly the Hofmann was a mess!

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By: Sharon Crute

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:38:43 +0000

Alyson: Did you push or pull your paint over the Hofmann? Very important.

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By: Yvonne Branchflower

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:39:01 +0000

Alyson, I’m with Cynthia–your dream about adding your work over a master’s work might suggest you are a little tense about all the new things you are doing. You are doing a fine job of introducing artists to advanced ideas about marketing with today’s tools. The root of anxiety might simply be your new ventures, or might indicate your need to regain control of older currently neglected parts of your life. Best wishes.

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By: Casey Klahn

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:19:24 +0000

Pizza? Whatever it took to get you dreaming about Hoffman, I would like to try a dream about Degas, van Gogh or (yes) Hans Hoffman!

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By: shea

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:33:28 +0000

I like it. Makes me want to reach out and touch it.

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By: cynthia

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:10:53 +0000

Aren’t dreams funny things? Back when I was working for a major airline, I had variations on the anxious work dream – about 3 different themes. Every so often I have one and I wake up and remind myself I haven’t worked there in over 7 years. Just the other night I had a pottery dream – couldn’t find my wheel and all night long, I was trying to find it. At points in my dream, I would find a wheel, only to realize that it wasn’t mine. I know what mine means, I have some deadlines coming up and I’m feeling a little anxiety. Any big events coming your way?

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By: Sari

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:04:52 +0000

woops, sorry for twice mispelling…I meant Hofmann(two n’s one f)…& when I looked up Provincetown, apparently alot of really great artists hung out there…so maybe, like Etretat, it had been painted too many times…(though my husband says in agreement to Alyson, that Hofmann was really known for his teaching…)

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By: Sari

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:49:08 +0000

Monet planned a trip to Le Havre to paint…Finally he went…the weather was bad …so he had to go to Etretat instead (nearby, but better weather)…He didn’t want to paint Etretat, because so many other artists had already painted Etretat…So Monet did his Etretat series…kind of like this Hoffman painting…not really very, well, like Philip says, could use some help…I think maybe a moral that could be learned from your dream is that some things cannot be improved upon…maybe Provincetown where Hoffman painted this piece is like Etretat …just kind of a mediocre place…maybe the lesson is that art can be trapped by a crummy location…or anything else…that maybe sometimes to grow, you have to move & see new things…will look up Provincetown…(is it pretty there ?)

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By: Patricia

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:17:06 +0000

I’d say you’re feeling pretty smug about lining up a cool class like Jennifer’s! Do you have any instructor’s with the last name Van Gogh coming up? Now that’d be a dream!

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