Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

Traveled to Rose Art Museum Brandeis University (Waltham Massachusetts 6 January-2 February 1964) Isaac Delgado Museum of Art (New Orleans 21 February-15 March 1964) Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo New York 30 March-26 April) University of California at Berkeley (11 May-7 June) Gallery of Modern Art (Washington D. Starting at a young age Hofmann gravitated towards science and mathematics. His completely abstract works date from the 1940s.

Hans Hofmann (March 21 1880 – February 17 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.