Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwellwas an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth24 January 1915
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Motherwell quotes about
american-artist art
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
art firsts abstract
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
art modern-life unconventional
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.
art reality degrees
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.
art appearance abstract
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
art struggle simple
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.
art encounters forgotten
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.
artist drawing vision
In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.
art order mind
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.
art years leaving
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.
artist
It is true that every artist has his own religion.
art matter painting
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
art effort unions
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.
art feelings being-me
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being...