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Phantasmagoria the absence of a greater color range leaves something lacking. Was Hoffman on to a personal flavor of Minimalism that utilizes gesture? Was he rebelling against his own brightly-hued, yin-yang of hard-edge versus gesture history to settle more on the latter? Or was it something else? In any event Hoffman gets kudos for striving beyond his own success and challenging his esthetic. Unfortunately some of this later work just isn�t as interesting. |
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The show itself is marvelously curated in that the most important 20 years of Hoffman�s career are successfully compressed into a few gallery rooms. There is just enough work and of satisfying variety and quality to provide a pleasant suggestion of time travel as you move through this show. It�s the same sort of experience offered by MOMA�s Pollock retrospective in 1998, though on a smaller scale. |
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Jackson Pollock - The Screenprints: 1941
-1951, Joan Washburn Gallery,
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Jackson Pollock and screen prints? This at first seems inconceivable given this artist�s esthetic and the process required for producing silk-screen prints. How do you take the spontaneous, intuitive, yet structured methodology Pollock applied to painting and transfer it into printmaking? Begin with the connection which, as it turns out, was a family one. Pollock�s brother Sanford McCoy owned a commercial screen print establishment. In 1951 Pollock created a portfolio of six screen prints produced from photographs of six of his black paintings from the same year. He |
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