Just As Counterpoint And Harmony Follow Their Own Laws, And Differ In Rhythm And Movement, Both Formal Tensions And Color Tensions Have A Development Of Their Own In Accordance With The Inherent Laws From Which They Are Separately Derived. Both, However, Aim Toward The Realization Of The Same Image. And Both Deal With The Depth Problem.

-Hans Hofmann

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Just As Counterpoint And Harmony Follow Their

Hans Hofmann

Just As Counterpoint And Harmony Follow Their Own Laws, And Differ In Rhythm And Movement, Both Formal Tensions And Color Tensions Have A Development Of Their Own In Accordance With The Inherent Laws From Which They Are Separately Derived. Both, However, Aim Toward The Realization Of The Same Image. And Both Deal With The Depth Problem.

Topic

Color

Law

Depth

The Impressionistic Method Leads Into A Complete Splitting And Dissolution Of All Areas Involved In The Composition, And Color Is Used To Create An Overall Effect Of Light. The Color Is, Through Such A Shading Down From The Highest Light In The Deepest Shadows, Sacrified An Degraded To A (black-and-white) Function. This Leads To The Destructions Of The Color As Color.

Black And White

Color

Light