Artist Information:
Robert Allen Hoffman
Fort Wayne, IN
United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
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Artist Statement:
The influence of the bird
originates in my childhood. My
Grandparents had a wooded plot
of land where birds would
migrate, nest and frolic
and as a child I would survey
and wonder what if we had
these attributes. How would we
look and exist in this or a
world similar to ours?
My early works, consisted of
transfer and collage imagery
dealing with the zoomorphic
ideas between human and bird
lifeforms.
Various forms took root in my
art where there were human
heads on bird bodies and vise
versa.
I came to dislike the Human
headed figures that in art are
historically known as
Alkonosts or Harpey because of
there negative connotations.
I began to work diligently on
my figures with bird heads
because of there Fantastic,
surreal and fairy tale
qualities
and moved away from the
collage and transfer aspects
of production and began
focusing on drawing the
figures.
These became what I call my
Avisapien. A play on words
where human and avian are
combined like
my zoomorphic imagery to
create a creature and name
with both attributes.
My current work continues with
these ideas and techniques as
well as developing them
further in a sculptural and
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Robert Allen Hoffman's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Robert Allen Hoffman's Portfolio. Browse Hoffman's body of work: The influence of the bird originates in my childhood. My Grandparents had a wooded plot of land where birds would migrate, nest and frolic
and as a child I would survey and wonder what if we had these attributes. How would we look and exist in this or a world similar to ours?
My early works, consisted of transfer and collage imagery dealing with the zoomorphic ideas between human and bird lifeforms.
Various forms took root in my art where there were human heads on bird bodies and vise versa.
I came to dislike the Human headed figures that in ... |
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