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Hans Hartung
Vader van de lyrische abstractie / Père de l'abstraction lyrique / Father of the lyrical abstraction
ISBN: 9789464202212
(HB - EN-FR-NL)
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A unique overview of the work of Hans Hartung (Leipzig 1904 - Antibes 1989)
Like the sea, Hartung's work is a metaphor for existence. This does not mean that Hartung would have endeavored to represent or reproduce life as such, but rather, as a true artist that he was, to create a parallel world, freed from everyday life and obeying a logic and a legality. clean. For sixty years, Hartung has developed an abstract art free from any referent, any factuality and any form of argument.
It is precisely in this that it is unique and more than any other embodies the specific turning point in twentieth century art, ie the recourse to abstract thought. This does not mean that Hartung stayed away from the world. As a man, he had experienced in his flesh the insane fury of the Second World War. He knew like no one else the degradation of men. As an artist, however, he refused to submit to the diktat of mediocrity and the human condition: "I want to be free from others and from myself."
Artistically, Hartung expresses this independence through an unorthodox combination of the most divergent techniques. Each work nevertheless expresses a prodigious harmony, which is due to the subtle balance between the speed and the clarity of the line on the one hand, and the timeless classicism of the composition, on the other. In this quest for total artistic freedom, each work thus marks a sort of gradation or stage. It is no different with the sea, an irrepressible metaphor for this freedom that sparkles everywhere on the edge of the fleeting moment and of eternity.
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