Marcia Hafif emerged as a painter just as critics and artists alike were claiming that all applications and experimentation in the medium had been exhausted. In her 1978 essay Beginning Again, Hafif... Read full biography
Marcia Hafif emerged as a painter just as critics and artists alike were claiming that all applications and experimentation in the medium had been exhausted. In her 1978 essay Beginning Again, Hafif argues against the "death of painting," asserting that abstraction had been the style of some of the... Read full biography
Marcia Hafif emerged as a painter just as critics and artists alike were claiming that all applications and experimentation in the medium had been exhausted. In her 1978 essay Beginning Again, Hafif argues against the "death of painting," asserting that abstraction had been the style of some of the 20th century's greatest artworks. Additionally, she believes painting cannot die for the reason that people perceive the physical, technical, and historical attributes of a painting differently. In... Read full biography
Marcia Hafif emerged as a painter just as critics and artists alike were claiming that all applications and experimentation in the medium had been exhausted. In her 1978 essay Beginning Again, Hafif argues against the "death of painting," asserting that abstraction had been the style of some of the 20th century's greatest artworks. Additionally, she believes painting cannot die for the reason that people perceive the physical, technical, and historical attributes of a painting differently. In her monochromatic works, Hafif has explored the numerous formats, mediums, and mixes and how they highlight pigments in a specific application. Whereas some viewers feel that monochrome is "insufficient," Hafif states it "is open and receptive and... Read full biography
Marcia Hafif emerged as a painter just as critics and artists alike were claiming that all applications and experimentation in the medium had been exhausted. In her 1978 essay Beginning Again, Hafif argues against the "death of painting," asserting that abstraction had been the style of some of the 20th century's greatest artworks. Additionally, she believes painting cannot die for the reason that people perceive the physical, technical, and historical attributes of a painting differently. In her monochromatic works, Hafif has explored the numerous formats, mediums, and mixes and how they highlight pigments in a specific application. Whereas some viewers feel that monochrome is "insufficient," Hafif states it "is open and receptive and 'empty;' it is non-specific and changing according to time, location, and viewer." In Cobalt Blue (1983), Hafif has mimicked the vit... Read full biography
Marcia Woods Hafif - Artist Info
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Books & Publications (10)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Karo Dame/Konstruktive, Konkrete und Radikale Kunst von Frauen von 1914 bis heute
1995
Wismer, Beat
424 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Drawings about Drawing Today (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Shoemaker, Innis H (intro)
85 pages
SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen (Exhibition catalog)