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Robert Motherwell 1915–1991 Am. artist

Motherwell, Robert

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1915–91, American painter and writer, b. Aberdeen, Wash. Motherwell taught art at several colleges and during the early 1940s he became a cogent theoretician of abstract expressionism . His canvases are characterized by large, amorphous shapes, painted in strong, austere colors. His most famous body of work is a series of over 100 paintings entitled Elegy for the Spanish Republic (1948–90). He also created numerous masterful collages and more than 500 editions of prints. He was married for several years to the painter Helen Frankenthaler . Motherwell edited Documents of Modern Art (15 vol., 1944–61), Modern Artists in America (1952), The Dada Painters and Poets (1951), and Documents of 20th-Century Art (1971–80). His keen critical powers and abundant intellectual gifts are evident in his many essays, brought together in The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell (1993). See Engberg, S. , Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991 (2004) and. Flam, J. et al., Robert Motherwell, …
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(born Jan. 24, 1915, Aberdeen, Wash., U.S.—died July 16, 1991, Provincetown, Mass.) U.S. painter, writer, and teacher. He received an art scholarship at 11, but he earned degrees from Stanford and Harvard before deciding to become a serious painter. He espoused Abstract Expressionism from the…
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1915–91, American painter and writer, b. Aberdeen, Wash. Motherwell taught art at several colleges and during the early 1940s he became a cogent theoretician of abstract expressionism . His canvases are characterized by large, amorphous shapes, painted in strong, austere colors. His most famous body…
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(24 January 1915–16 July 1991) As one of the few notable American visual artists to have a degree from Stanford University, he knew early not just to read but also to appreciate great books. Though Motherwell's paintings brought him fortune and modest celebrity, he did more significant work in…
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US painter and writer, an exponent of Abstract Realism. His works typically consist of large, amorphous blocks of strong colour, such as his most famous series, Elegies to the Spanish Republic (1975). One of the most striking of abstract art’s appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. 1951…
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