Artwork Title: Goose Island

Goose Island, 2007

Viva Hoffman

“Goose Island” a painting from late last summer [2007]: Look at that water! It’s musical, and “painterly.” It’s been said that there are two kinds of painters, the draftsman-like and and the painterly. The late Hans Junga was draftsman-like (as is Michael Ringer) whereas Viva is a “broad brush” painter who attacks the canvas directly. No blocking out the composition with a pencil drawing for her. No reworking. Make the mark and let it stand. Live with it—let the next mark relate to it—this is improvisational painting. Viva is essentially an impressionist painter, working in the landscape tradition of Monet. Similarly she paints in plein air (open air, outdoors, not in the studio from sketches or photographs); she is inspired not merely by the visual scene, but by the whole environmental quality—breeze, smell, the total river ambiance, which she tries to capture. (http://thousandislandslife.com/backissues/archive/tabid/393/articletype/articleview/articleid/54/viva-hoffm)
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