Hofmann's abstraction is hard won: it comes from depicting the world around him. Over the years his paintings cover a vast territory: they are uneven in quality, various in style; he paints his own history of the most relevant 20th Century art, a kind of Hofmannesque Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Hofmann's abstraction is hard won: it comes from depicting the world around him. Over the years his paintings cover a vast territory: they are uneven in quality, various in style; he paints his own history of the most relevant 20th Century art, a kind of Hofmannesque Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism." in the context of "Anthony Caro, in the foreword he wrote for an exhibition of Hofmann's work at Crane Kalman Gallery, London, June 1990; as quoted in Hans Hofmann - a retrospective, Karen Wilkin, Naples museum of art - George Braziller, Inc - , pp. 45-46" to mean that wisdom is timeless.