ROBERT MOTHERWELL...1915-1991
Wednesday we investigated his wife...today we look at Motherwell, the youngest member of the group of artists who founded the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York in the 1940s. He was also an active writer and editor of writings on art. Poetry, philosophy and politics gave him inspiration for his abstract art.
From the 1949 painting, AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON, until the end of his life, Motherwell continued his search for a personal and political voice in abstraction. This search produced a body of work that remains a testament to the human soul and its persistence, and to the genre of abstract painting out of which it came. Read the full article about him at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/robert-motherwell/about-robert-motherwell/665/.
Other famous art couples include Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Steiglitz. We'll look at these couples next.
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