NGA - Permanent Collection

While viewing the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Australia's I chose my most and least favourite artworks. Every time I visit the NGA there is a different artwork that appeals to me. The artwork that appealed to me the most this time was in the Abstract Expressionist Gallery. The artwork is called “Pre-Dawn” 1960, by Hans Hoffman. Usually I’m not really into the work by the abstract expressionist as I have always felt it was really rushed and slapped together, but it isn’t until that you see paintings in person that you are able to really appreciate them.
When I looked at this picture of “pre-dawn” I don’t enjoy it as much as I can’t see the detail of the work it just looks like coloured squares and circles but when seeing it in the gallery its so big with so much detail, texture and the colours are so bright and eye catching.


Pre-dawn 1960
oil on canvas
183.9 (h) x 152.8 (w) cm
signed and dated l.r., green oil "60/ hans hofmann"
Purchased 1976
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