Being a universal genre, Blues has its peculiarities and variations in style and performance.
Max Hoeffner can feel its depth and intensity like a true bluesman. As a connoisseur of the music, he has a profound understanding of what it means and what it represents.  Something he translates beautifully, and rhythmically, into his art.
In fact, we can almost hear the lyrics when we walk into one of Max’s paintings. He has mastered, like no other Latin American artist, the essence of the mother of all modern music through its different periods and the environments in which it developed.
Rural or urban, secular or sanctified, the artist is able to carry the spectator, blues fan or not, through the different historical and social aspects of Afro-American culture.


Hoeffner depicts an important part of the history of blues, one that stretches between the 1920s, time when Blues came into its own as a significant musical expression within the new national popular culture,  and the early sixties. The first recordings starred the great female classic blues singers, then came the country folk singers of the Mississippi Delta. As large numbers of African Americans fled the south in search of better socio-economic conditions above the Mason-Dixon line, the blues traveled with them and became rooted in urban centers of the north such as Chicago. The more urban electric blues that developed, they eclipsed the rural blues of the 1930s and directly influenced both rock and roll and what would become known as rhythm and blues.

Hoeffner describes the lives of the people, the artists and the great country bluesmen and women, some only privy to the true believers. As a conjuror of the Mississippi, he evokes this unique setting and brings together its sweet and sour colors for the purpose of an amazing and at times harsh harmony.
With the folk revival of the 1950s and '60s, white audiences "rediscovered" and breathed new commercial life into the folk blues (and some of the remaining Delta bluesmen who had languished in obscurity since the 1930s) making it the cornerstone of the tremendously popular British and American blues rock of the next decade.