| 词条 | Michael Hofmann (sumi-e) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Hofmann is an artist and teacher. He has been an active sumi-e painter since moving from the United States to Japan in 1972. For 33 years Hofmann worked closely with {{Interlanguage link multi|Jikihara Gyokusei|ja|3=直原玉青}} (1904-2005), the prominent sumi-e painter, Abbot of Kokusei-ji Temple, Awajishima and Director of Japan's National Association of Nanga Painters. Hofmann has taught sumi-e ink painting at universities, museums and cultural institutions in both Japan and the United States. He has illustrated numerous books and his work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums.
BiographyWhile completing his degree in Asian Studies with a focus on eastern religions, Hofmann met [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Hofmann_with_Shibayama_Zenkei_Roshi,_at_UC_at_Santa_Barbara_(1969).jpg Zen priest and calligrapher] Shibayama Zenkei Roshi (1894-1974), Abbot of the Nanzen-ji Temple. The Abbot inspired him to visit the East and Hofmann soon embarked on an overland voyage through central Asia to Nepal, stopping in Kathmandu for five months where he studied Buddhist sculpture. After returning to the U.S. Hofmann worked as a museum guard in San Francisco to earn money for his passage to Japan where Shibayama Zenkei introduced him to his friend, painting master and poet Jikihara Gyokusei.[1] Hofmann worked, and traveled with Jikihara until the master’s death in 2005.[2] Shibayama also introduced him to Antaiji, a Zen temple where he was allowed to join the monks in their meditation practice. Hofmann’s rigorous Zen practice quickly became integral to the "sincerity’ and "honesty" of his sumi-e painting style.[3] He periodically left Japan to travel through villages and cities in Asia, Latin America, and Europe, capturing what he saw with brush and ink. CollaborationsStyleUnlike traditional apprenticeships in China and Japan, Jikihara encouraged Hofmann to create his own compositions and develop his own style. "Even while his drawings are so much imbued with Japanese style, they have a vivacity of line, stroke and expression which is very personal."[9] With time, Hofmann’s work branched out into oils and other media and his brushwork began to push traditional limits. He also introduced "subjects not common to the sumi-e genre, like erotic nudes and urban landscapes."[3] His paintings’ "bold strokes, forceful gestures and energy… catch a moment or a mood undistracted" making "emotions palpable."[10] TeachingAs a teacher, Hofmann has pointed to similarities between brush painting and the action painting of American Abstract Expressionists. In workshops and lectures, including those at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, [https://www.brown.edu/ Brown University], and the San Francisco Zen Center, Hofmann has emphasized the use of upper body movement to augment expressiveness. In 2011 Hofmann moved back to the United States and settled in Sonoma County, California where he paints, teaches "[https://www.facebook.com/Breakaway-Sumi-e-1688454308034129/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Breakaway Sumi-e]", and continues his Zen practice at the [https://www.facebook.com/SantaRosaCreekZenCenter/photos/a.465439593526631.1073741829.464209573649633/912309642172955/?type=1&theater Pacific Zen Institute].[2] Notable Exhibitions
Installations
Book and Magazine Illustrations
Classes and Workshops
GalleryReferences1. ^{{cite journal|last1=Takahashi|first1=Yoshiaki|title=Michael Hofmann: Sharing the beauty of Zen through modern style sumi-e|journal=Kansai Forum|date=1994|pages=40–41}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Weed|first1=Laurie|title=Transplanted artist settles in|url=http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2645679-181/transplanted-artist-settles-in-after|website=Press Democrat|accessdate=March 27, 2001}} 3. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Pawasarat|first1=Catherine|title=Paintings with lives of their own|journal=Japan Times|date=April 15, 2000|page=15|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2000/04/15/arts/paintings-with-lives-of-their-own/#.VjkVgWSrT5Y}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last1=Wachs|first1=Stewart|title=Homage to a sake-loving poet|journal=The Japan Times|date=April 20, 1988}} 5. ^{{cite journal|title=Visual Arts|journal=Kansai Time Out|date=May 2004|page=31}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Braverman|first1=Arthur|title=Living and Dying in Zazen, Five Zen Masters of Modern Japan|date=2003|publisher=Weatherhill|page=12}} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://web-japan.org/museum/painthist/phmuroj/phmuroj.html|title=Overview of Painting of The Muromachi Period (1333-1568)|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=April 30, 2018}} 8. ^{{cite journal|last1=Stephens|first1=Christopher|title=Art Focus|journal=Kansai Time Out|date=September 2002|pages=35–36}} 9. ^{{cite journal|last1=Fried|first1=Alexander|title=In the style of Japan’s literati|journal=San Francisco Examiner|date=November 26, 1975|page=17}} 10. ^{{cite journal|last1=Iyer|first1=Pico|title=Michael Hofmann: A Music of the Unexpected|journal=Kansai Time Out|date=January 1983|page=24}} 11. ^{{cite journal|title=Poems of wandering and impressions of life, American artist Michael Hofmann haiga exhibition|journal=Zen Graphic Autumn|date=1988|pages=42–43}} 12. ^{{cite journal|title=Exhibitions: Michael Hofmann|journal=Daily Yomiuri|date=November 10, 1997|page=10}} 13. ^{{cite journal|title=American Paints the Culture of the East, Gyokusei Museum in West Awajishima|journal=Kobe Newspaper|date=May 5, 2004|page=24}} 14. ^{{cite journal|title=A Sumie Painter Remembers His Journey, American Painter's One Man Show|journal=Yomiuri Newspaper|date=September 26, 2008|page=33}} External links
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