| Rick Hoffman
has been painting since 1966. Previous to that he was an avid drawer. His
first original piece was called The Fisherman and His Dog. Earliest drawings
were sailing ships. As a young boy most of his drawings were based on things
he saw on TV movies primarily from "Picture on a Sunday Afternoon", a big
event when he was growing up. He loved knights in armor, the civil war and
world war II epics. Often he would play with his various armies of toy
soldiers and photograph the "setups". These became remembered reference in a
series of 1980's drawings called "Surrenders of Great Armies of the World".
He rarely played with the "army men"- he just meticulously "set them up!
This made playing with army men a solitary act. When friends came over to
play with the soldiers they just wanted to knock them over and win "the
war". That was not how it was done here! The Art
Website divides different periods of Ricks Art into different pages they are
as follows"
The
Surrealistic Work 1969-71
26 Days in
1971July 15th through August 11th
The
Expressive Figurative Period 1972- 1982
1982-1984 The
Major Construction Projects
Ambient Art
1982-1990
Ambient Deer
and Other Events 1985-1990
Ambient Art &
Multi Media Collages1986-1990
Painted
Newspapers & the Tunnel Beyond 1990-2005
The Newest Work-
Altered
Photography- Surreal Reality 2005-
The Other Side of the
Hedge
-an animation
The Side Projects
Surrenders of Great Armies of the World and other
Satires 1975-81
State College Sketch Books 1975-6
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