Robert Motherwell
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"Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in their head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss." - Robert Motherwell. Robert Motherwell is American born artist, lecturer, printmaker, and editor has had solo exhibitions in the following great artistic international institutions. His first solo show was presented at the Raymond Duncan Gallery in Paris in 1939. Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Centry Gallery, New York. Arts Club of Chicago. San Francisco Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the Museum des 20. The Jahrhunderts, Vienna. The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Royal Academy, London. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Robert Motherwell passed away in 1991, but not without leaving behind a plethora of paintings, prints and collages that display simply shapes, black/white images and bold, rich colors. These award winning features reflect his interpretation of art history, philosophy, death, oppression, revolution, autobiographical content, contemporary events, and the basic human conditions. He once stated in an interview that he loved using the somber images on a black and white palette because for him, black was a structural element and a symbolic conduit. The color black was his protagonists nature coming out on canvas. Motherwell also said that using black was both a medium and a message which allowed him to create works that were once in abstract form, but which maintained a strong connection to the physical world. Robert Mothewell once met one of his heroes, Matisse, whom he said floored him because he liked Motherwell's work. Motherwell traveled in the circle of great surrealism artists like Roberto Matta, William Baziotes, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock. In addition to becoming a great American painter, Motherwell was an educator as he became editor of the Documents of Modern Art series of books, in addition to contributing regularly to literature series pieces on Modern art in the 1940’s. Less

"Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in their head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss." - Robert Motherwell. Robert Motherwell is American born artist, lecturer, printmaker, and editor has had solo exhibitions in the following great artistic international institutions. His first solo show was presented at the Raymond Duncan Gallery in Paris in 1939. Peggy Guggenheim's Art of More

United States, 1915-1991 | male artist | Postmodernism | Lyrical Abstraction | Abstract expressionism | Gestural | Abstract art | American Abstract Artists (AAA) | Colour Field Painting | Automatism | Process Art | Surrealism | Share on Facebook and Twitter