Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. Events 41 - Gaius Caesar (Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel Despotism, is Assassinated by his disgruntled Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Sculpture of the United States Visual arts of the United States refers to the history of Painting and Visual art in the United States. Abstract expressionism was an American post– World War II Art movement. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Printmaking is the Process of making artworks by Printing, normally on Paper. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston
Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington. The New York School (synonymous with abstract expressionist painting was an informal group of American Poets painters Dancers and Musicians Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28 1912 &ndash August 11 1956 was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz ( Latvian: Marks Rotko; September 25, 1903 &ndash February 25, 1970 Willem de Kooning (April 24 1904 – March 19 1997 was an Abstract expressionist painter born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands Philip Guston ( June 27, 1913 &ndash June 7, 1980) was a notable painter and Printmaker in the New York School Aberdeen (ˈæbɚdiːn is a city in Grays Harbor County Washington, United States, founded by Samuel Benn in 1884 He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Stanford University in 1937 and completed one year of a philosophy Ph.D. at Harvard before shifting fields to art and art history, studying under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University. A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of Higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual Art history is the Academic study of objects of Art in their Historical development and stylistic contexts i Meyer Schapiro (born September 23, 1904, in Shavel / Šiauliai, Lithuania; died March 3, 1996 in New York Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. His rigorous background in rhetoric would serve him and the abstract expressionists well, as he was able to tour the country giving speeches that articulated to the public what it was that he and his friends were doing in New York. Rhetoric has had many definitions no simple definition can do it justice Without his tireless devotion to communication (in addition to his prolific painting), well-known abstract expressionists like Rothko, who was extremely shy and rarely left his studio, might not have made it into the public eye. Motherwell's collected writings are a truly exceptional window into the abstract expressionist world. He was a lucid and engaging writer, and his essays are considered a bridge for those who want to learn more about non-representational art but who are put off by dense art criticism. Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual Art. Art critics usually criticize art in the context of Aesthetics or the theory of
Motherwell spent significant time in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Provincetown is a town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Cy Twombly studied under him. Cy Twombly (born April 25 1928 is an American artist well known for his large scale freely-scribbled calligraphic style Graffiti paintings on solid fields of
Motherwell's greatest goal was to use the staging of his work to convey to the viewer the mental and physical engagement of the artist with the canvas. He preferred using the starkness of black paint as one of the basic elements of his paintings. Black is the Color of objects that do not emit or Reflect Light in any part of the Visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of Paint is any Liquid, liquifiable or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque Solid He was known to frequently employ the technique of diluting his paint with turpentine to create a shadow effect. Turpentine (also called spirit of turpentine oil of turpentine wood turpentine gum turpentine is a fluid obtained by the Distillation of Resin obtained from trees A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object His long-running series of paintings "Elegies for the Spanish Republic" is generally considered his most significant project.
Motherwell was a member of the editorial board of the surrealist magazine VVV and a contributor of Wolfgang Paalens journal Dyn, which was edited 1942-44 in six numbers. VVV was a journal devoted to the dissemination of Surrealism, published in New York City from 1942 through 1944. Dyn or DYN may refer to DYN (journal Dyne, unit of force He also edited Paalens collected essays Form and Sense in 1945 as the first Number of Problems of Contemporary Art.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth houses the largest collection of Motherwell's works. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (widely referred to as The Modern) was first granted a Charter from the State of Texas in 1892 as the "Fort Worth Public Library The Walker Art Center also has a nearly-complete collection of his prints. This page is about the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Empire State Plaza holds some of his work. The Governor Nelson A Rockefeller Empire State Plaza (commonly known as simply the Empire State Plaza and less formally as The South Mall
He was married to artist Helen Frankenthaler. Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American Post-painterly abstraction artist
Books
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003. ) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000. ) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6
External links
- Robert Motherwell Biography: Hollis Taggart Galleries
- Robert Motherwell - American Abstract Expressionist - A Virtual Gallery
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