Martin Canin (Brooklyn, New York, 1927鈥擱hinebeck, New York, 2000) was an American Color Field painter, contemporary to the Washington Color School (Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland). Canin鈥檚 work demonstrates Hans Hoffman鈥檚 dictum: 鈥淎 painting [鈥 must light up from the inside through the intrinsic qualities which color relations offer. It must not be illuminated from the outside by superficial effects. When it lights up from the inside, the painted surface breathes, because the interval relations which dominate the whole cause it to oscillate and vibrate鈥� (Search for the Real and Other Essays, pp. 65-78).
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