{"id":1027,"date":"2012-02-18T07:49:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T07:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2012-02-18T07:49:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T07:49:47","slug":"hofmann-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Hofmann &#8211; (Parallels)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1028\" style=\"width: 887px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1942-The-Artist-Version-42-x-39-in-oil-reduced.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1028\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1028\" title=\"1942 - The Artist Version - 42 x 39 in - oil-reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1942-The-Artist-Version-42-x-39-in-oil-reduced.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"877\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1942-The-Artist-Version-42-x-39-in-oil-reduced.jpg 877w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1942-The-Artist-Version-42-x-39-in-oil-reduced-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hans Hofmann - The Artist Version - 1942 - 42 x 39 in - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This painting is a great example of flattening combined with a sense of perspective.\u00a0 The depth is provided by the oblique lines which do not\u00a0 lead to a vanishing point.\u00a0 This is very important because the vanishing point freezes the viewer and Hofmann avoids this with the parallel lines of the table top and the rung in the chair.\u00a0 We see parallels in the blue area connecting the chair and a line in the rectangle shape in front of the table.\u00a0 The blue area can read as another table, or a carpet?\u00a0 What wonderful play!\u00a0 He has painted a sense of space in which we can wonder.<\/p>\n<p>I love the transparency of things like reading the chair leg through the top of the container and the table through the package or paintings in front.\u00a0 We also see this in the vase and cups. His sophisticated colours are wonderful and I hope you can feel how their flatness emphasizes the shapes.\u00a0 He knows the viewer will mentaly supply the space or depth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This painting is a great example of flattening combined with a sense of perspective.\u00a0 The depth is provided by the oblique lines which do not\u00a0 lead to a vanishing point.\u00a0 This is very important because the vanishing point freezes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=1027\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,18,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}