Out of Focus: Another Vision of Art

Hans Hartung was known for his rapid, gestural marks and experimental use of tools—from spray guns to garden rakes. He sought to capture energy in motion. His process was improvisational yet precise, balancing chaos with control to create compositions that pulse with intensity.

Featured in “Out of Focus: Another Vision of Art” at the Musée de l’Orangerie, Hartung’s work reveals abstraction as an act of movement. The exhibition highlights artists who explored new visual languages in the decades following 1945, challenging traditional hierarchies of medium, subject, and style. Hartung fits squarely into that shift—his canvases buzz with the rhythm of their own making, more gesture than image, more force than form.