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Jul 16, 1991 · American Painter and Printmaker. Born: January 24, 1915 - Aberdeen, Washington. Died: July 16, 1991 - Provincetown, Massachusetts. Movements and Styles: Abstract Expressionism. "Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head.
Mar 28, 2024 · Robert Motherwell (born Jan. 24, 1915, Aberdeen, Wash., U.S.—died July 16, 1991, Provincetown, Mass.) was an American painter, one of the founders and principal exponents of Abstract Expressionism ( q.v. ), who was among the first American artists to cultivate accidental elements in his work.
Painter, printer, collage maker and author. A leading Abstract Expressionist, in 1949 he began his most famous series, Elegies to the Spanish Republic, which is comprised of more than 100 oil paintings and numerous sketches and drawings. He was editor of the important book series Documents of Modern Art.
Robert Motherwell (1915—1991) was one of the leading American artists of the twentieth century. He worked with a wide range of imagery, which reflected his acute awareness of the richness and complexity of human experience, and he was also the leading spokesperson for the Abstract-Expressionists.
November 21, 2015–March 27, 2016. Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) helped forge a new vision of painting that established Abstract Expressionism at the vanguard of post-war painting and transformed New York into the epicenter of the art world in the second half of the twentieth-century.
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
The youngest and most academically inclined member of the Abstract Expressionist group, Robert Motherwell had received degrees from Stanford and Harvard when he began studying art history under famed art historian and critic Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University.
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