Description
Painting 1971 – 1075 at the Metropolitan Museum of art – New York
1975
Introduction :
Hans Hartung is a painter of international importance whose work 1s as yet insufficiently known and appreciated outside Western Europe. There is, for instance, an American art public familiar with a few painting from a short period m the 1950s, the paintings of « long grasses. » These are elegant and splendid, an inspired moment, but hardly the whole man. Art 1s not necessarily exportable. ln the twentieth century we can point to many national heroes whose work falls pen deaf ears or blind eyes beyond their respective borders. ln some cases the work 1s simply not good enough to command wider attention.In others it must become familiar over long enough a period to wear down local prejudice before it 1s given m due. Hans Hattung s work has the intelligence, force, and wit to leap beyond local boundaries. Hartung made the transition from Germany to France via Spain, and he became one of the most highly valued members of the School of Pans, a difficult fraternity, named after a city, but as truly international as any artistic designation of our time. It is high time that his life s work, especial1 Y the art of his recent years, be esteemed internationally at its true value.
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