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To Create Form, Find an Equivalent for Life
Painting by Hans Hoffman
“The Golden Wall”
Oil on Canvas
59½ x 71½”
1961
Class notes from Drawing the Figure in Space with Elizabeth Rupprecht, SAIC, 1991
Purpose: to create form; to find an equivalent for life.
Check out Frank Stella’s “Working Spaces.” Exploring another area of cubism.
Cut up something and rearrange it within a grid. Implied floorplane.
Look at Hoffman’s “Golden Wall” in the museum.
Look at Holbein for eyes, mouth. Look at Giacometti.
Nose and ear are often parallel, curved or straight, whatever.
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