{"id":19571,"date":"2017-01-24T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/american-artist-robert-motherwell\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:00:22","slug":"american-artist-robert-motherwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com.au\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/american-artist-robert-motherwell\/","title":{"rendered":"American Artist Robert Motherwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Motherwell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/3\/32\/Robert_Motherwell's_'Elegy_to_the_Spanish_Republic_No._110'.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 by Robert Motherwell, 1971, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On this date in 1915, American painter\u00a0Robert Motherwell was born in the state of Washington. According to Wikipedia: He was one of the youngest of the <a title=\"New York School (art)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_School_(art)\">New York School<\/a> (a phrase he coined). Motherwell&#8217;s work\u00a0encompassed both the expressive brushwork of action painting and the breadth of scale and saturated hues of color field painting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\/exhibition\/robert-motherwell-early-collages-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.guggenheim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/art-robert-motherwell-1944-1945-1024x1033.jpg?w=870\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Motherwell, View from a High Tower, 1944\u201345 (detail). Tempera, oil, ink, pastel, and pasted wood veneer, drawing papers, Japanese papers, and printed map on paperboard, 74.3 x 74.3 cm. Private collection \u00a9 Dedalus Foundation\/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <b>New York School<\/b> (synonymous with <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Abstract expressionist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abstract_expressionist\">abstract expressionist<\/a> painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\/artwork\/3045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.guggenheim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1943\/01\/76.2553.155_ph_web.jpg?w=870\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Personage (Autoportrait) by Robert Motherwell, December 9, 1943. Gouache, ink, and colored paper and Japanese paper collage on paperboard. Credit: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They often drew inspiration from <a title=\"Surrealism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surrealism\">surrealism<\/a> and the contemporary <a title=\"Avant-garde\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avant-garde\">avant-garde<\/a> art movements, in particular <a title=\"Action painting\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Action_painting\">action painting<\/a>, <a title=\"Abstract expressionism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abstract_expressionism\">abstract expressionism<\/a>, <a title=\"Jazz\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jazz\">jazz<\/a>, improvisational theater, <a title=\"Experimental music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Experimental_music\">experimental music<\/a>, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world&#8217;s <a title=\"Avant-garde\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avant-garde\">vanguard circle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formidablemag.com\/robert-motherwell\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.formidablemag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140628-172014-62414460-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Studio with \u201cElegy to the Spanish Republic no. 100 (revisited)\u201d by Robert Motherwell. Photo: https:\/\/www.formidablemag.com\/robert-motherwell\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The New York School\u00a0also included <a title=\"Philip Guston\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philip_Guston\">Philip Guston<\/a>, <a title=\"Willem de Kooning\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willem_de_Kooning\">Willem de Kooning<\/a>, <a title=\"Jackson Pollock\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackson_Pollock\">Jackson Pollock<\/a>, and <a title=\"Mark Rothko\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Rothko\">Mark Rothko<\/a>. Motherwell died in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 1915, American painter Robert Motherwell was born in the state of Washington. 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