Color Creates Light: Book Trailer by Peter Segnitz

Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann by Tina Dickey is available as of February 20, 2011. The ateliers of German emigrant Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in Munich, New York and Provincetown lured talented students later to become some of the most significant artists and educators of the time. Color Creates Light brings together the man, the schools, the painting, the ideas, and the teaching, through the words of the artists who were there. From how Hofmann taught to what he taught, artists talk shop about the inner workings of the visual language, a discussion essential to the contemporary dialogue in the visual arts.

Book trailer by Peter Segnitz for Color Creates Light
©2011 Trillistar Books; music ©2011 Peter Segnitz.

Image credits:

Initial still and all footage of Hans Hofmann excerpted from
Hans Hofmann, the 1950 documentary by Sam Feinstein ©1999
courtesy of Patricia Stark Feinstein
www.samfeinstein.com

00:12 Reproduction of Michelangelo with diagram by Hans Hofmann,
from p.189 of Form und Farbe in der Gestaltung: Ein Lehrbuch für den Kunstunterricht,
translated by Glenn Wessels, 1931.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

00:14 Untitled drawing by Blanche Lazzell with corrections by Hans Hofmann,
marked "Summer, 1937." Charcoal on paper, 25 x 19 inches.
©2011 West Virginia University Art Collections, 1995.002.038, gift of
James and Janet Reed.

00:27 Hans Hofmann in empty Nickerson Street school, Provincetown, MA,
off-season, 1950. Photo: Sibyl Moholy-Nagy.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

00:31 Hawthorne Studio, Provincetown, MA, 1935. Photo: Peter A. Juley & Son.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

00:37 Still life class, Hawthorne Studio, Provincetown, MA, 1942. Photo: Tom Milius.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

00:40 Life drawing class, Hawthorne Studio, Provincetown, MA, ca. 1941. Photo: Tom Milius.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

00:54 Diagram from Hofmann’s The Painter’s Printer (Das Malerbuch), ca. 1948.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

00:57 Reproduction of Rembrandt painting with diagram by Hans Hofmann,
from Hofmann’s The Painter’s Printer (Das Malerbuch), ca. 1948.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

01:01 Untitled drawing by Liam O’Gallagher, ca. 1945-46. Charcoal on paper, 25 x 19 inches.
Photo courtesy Liam O’Gallagher.

01:05 Joseph Plaskett, Still Life with Fallen Sunflower, 2003. Oil on canvas, 38 x 31 1/2 inches.
©2008 Joseph Plaskett. Photo courtesy Bau Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

01:10 George McNeil, Tharsus, 1960. Oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches.
©2008 Estate of George McNeil. Photo courtesy ACME Fine Art and Design, Boston, MA.

01:15 Lillian Orlowsky, Black Involvement, 1948. Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 inches.
©2008 Estate of Lillian Orlowsky Freed. Photo courtesy ACME Fine Art and Design, Boston, MA.

01:19 James Gahagan, Spring Gold, 1993. Oil on linen, 50 x 48 inches.
©2008 Estate of James Gahagan. Photo courtesy Patricia de Gogorza Gahagan.

01:24 Paul Resika, Vessels, #36, 1999. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.
©2008 Paul Resika. Reproduced courtesy Paul Resika and Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA;
Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA; and Lori Bookstein Gallery, NY.

01:41 Diagram from Hofmann’s The Painter and His Problems: A Manual Dedicated to Painting,
unpublished teaching summary dated March 21, 1963. Hofmann Papers, Archives of American Art.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

01:44 Diagrams by Hans Hofmann, (linear perspective, above, vs. Cézanne’s pictorial space, below),
from p.100 of Form und Farbe in der Gestaltung: Ein Lehrbuch für den Kunstunterricht,
translated by Glenn Wessels, 1931.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

02:37 Landscape session, Hawthorne Studio, Provincetown, MA, 1939. Photo: Maurice Berezov.
©2011 AE Artworks. Photo courtesy The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust.

02:43 Pablo Picasso, Hans Hofmann, Galerie Maeght, Paris, January, 1949. Photo: E.L. White, Jr.
©2011 The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Photo courtesy Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe.