Hans Hartung was a German painter that, like the Surrealist was interested in automatic drawing (a process of freely improvised mark-making); his works are paintings very strongly based on drawings.
At first sight you can think it´s very close to Abstract Expresionism but this isn´t true because "to abstract" means simplify a previous idea keeping the same concept and his paintings are not like that, they were not related to any previous idea.
You can also think that they look like "action painting" but those artists showed their body movements in a direct way on the canvas and Hartung wanted to see his mental state in his works, he spent most of the time concentrating, so the actual "painting process" was short.
But the truth is that he made his drawings that way, not his paintings, these ones were made more methodically, by carefully enlarging marks from the small drawings.
He believed it was the only way to maintain their energy on a larger scale (he even kept mistakes)
In class we were discussing about this artist and many of the students didn´t quite like it because what he does is something very subjective, sometimes you can even think that some artists like him just want to make laugh of you and move huge amounts of money, this is what happens with this kind of art, since it´s that controversial, but i think it´s also the beauty of it.
In class we were discussing about this artist and many of the students didn´t quite like it because what he does is something very subjective, sometimes you can even think that some artists like him just want to make laugh of you and move huge amounts of money, this is what happens with this kind of art, since it´s that controversial, but i think it´s also the beauty of it.
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