Autumn Gold is an important example of Hofmann’s most familiar body of work. These images are distinguished by heavy rectangular slabs of intense, unmodulated colors that hover or superimpose themselves on the surface of the picture and are, in certain places, secured by thick, vigorous passages in a lower key.
His strict formal principles were, in turn, a significant model for many abstract
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There was no time to carefully model objects and structures.
The painting shows us the ambiguity and loneliness of life on the outskirts of society.Â
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of touch, and harmony of color, concluded by proposing “Metsu as the greatest model
rather a tronie, a bust-length figure study that was an imaginative evocation of the model
studies (2013–2015) confirmed the presence of an underlying painting in which the model
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), one of New York’s most prominent artists in the 1880s, surpassed all others in the use of pastel. In his adept hands, pastel’s chalky matter rivaled the authority of oil paint, though with greater receptivity to light and an unmatched velvety texture.
heightened the effect—to the point of its being somewhat startling—by placing the model
the duke of Urbino, simply as “the woman in a blue dress�; [1] and the same model
Sensational and scandalous for an American audience unused to seeing classically nude statues of women, this figure by Hiram Powers caused a frenzy when it was first exhibited in the mid-19th century. Curious viewers came in droves to see it after Powers sent several copies from Italy, where he created the work.
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Clay or wax model (no longer extant) of Study in the Nude of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
