Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

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.