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	Robert Motherwell \| Abstract Expressionist Artist
		Robert Motherwell was born on January 24, 1915 in Aberdeen, Washington.
		Motherwell is one of the most recognized of the American Abstract Expressionist painters.
		Motherwell created his first collages at Jackson Pollock's Studio in Greenwich Village and, along with Pollock and Baziotes was invited to exhibit at the Peggy Guggenheim "Art of This Century" gallery in New York City.
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	Robert Motherwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 –July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter.
		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.
		Motherwell was a member of the editoral board of VVV.
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	Motherwell: Robert Motherwell
		Robert Motherwell was associated with a group of artists in the late 1940s and 1950s in New York who are now referred to as Abstract Expressionists.
		Robert Motherwell is an icon of modern art and one of the founding members of the Abstract Expressionist movement that took the art world by storm over half a century ago.
		Robert Motherwell was the youngest and most prolific of a group of artists â€” including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler and Franz Kline â€” who would change the face of American painting in the 1940s.
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	Robert Motherwell Biography and Artwork - MetroArtWork
		Motherwell created his first collages at Jackson Pollock's studio in Greenwich Village and along with Pollock and others, was invited to exhibit at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of this Century gallery.
		Robert Motherwell was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
		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.
	www.metroartwork.com /robert-motherwell-biography-artwork-m-137.html (737 words)

	Greg Kucera Gallery \| Robert Motherwell
		Motherwell made his first prints in 1943 and returned to printmaking in the early 1960s at the invitation of the ULAE print studio.
		Motherwell was fascinated by many literary figures as well as figures from art history that he painted and wrote about.
		Motherwell’s impressive series of Elegies to the Spanish Republic began in 1948 as a reaction to the Spanish Civil War.
	www.gregkucera.com /motherwell_reviews.htm (1087 words)

	Robert Motherwell - Encyclopedia.com
		Robert Motherwell 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.
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	Robert Motherwell Summary
		American artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) was one of the founders and last surviving members of the path-breaking Abstract Expressionist movement in painting.
		Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in January 1915.
		Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 –July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter.
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	ART OF THE 70'S: Motherwell
		Robert Motherwell differs from many contemporary artists in that his education has included many years of critical and philosophical study (at Harvard and Columbia) as well as fine art training (at Otis Institute and the California School of Fine Arts).
		Motherwell had his first solo show in Paris and his artmaking accelerated when he met and traveled with Surrealist artist Roberto Matta and then became associated with Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollack, and others in New York in the forties.
		Motherwell's is the embodiment of elegance and intellectual poise, the very qualities that keep some observers at a distance from this, the last of the great Abstract Expressionists.
	www.niagara.edu /cam/art_of_70s/Artists/motherwell.html (562 words)

	ASU Art Museum \| Collections: Robert Motherwell
		Motherwell strongly believed that meaning is conveyed through gesture and structure, in the bold fl marks and red slashes.
		Motherwell's year in Europe placed him in a special position, allowing him to bridge not only the language barrier but also the aesthetic gulf which divided American artists from European surrealist artists in exile in New York, such as Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy and Max Ernst.
		Motherwell was active in the transformation of European Surrealism, a movement motivated by the human psyche, and he guided its assimilation and acceptance by fellow American artists.
	asuartmuseum.asu.edu /collections/contemporary/mthrwell1.htm (529 words)

	Motherwell, Nevelson and Frankenthaler
		Robert Motherwell was attracted to printmaking because collaboration with master printmakers freed him from the isolation of painting, and for the print’s accessibility to a wider public.
		Motherwell from the West Coast and Frankenthaler from the East Coast are from privileged American backgrounds, while Nevelson who was born in the Ukraine was for a time in 1937 employed in the United States Works Progress Administration.
		Motherwell's images are from the interior, psychological states, while Frankenthaler often uses nature as a source for her imagery.
	www.marquette.edu /haggerty/exhibitions/past/berkman.html (1092 words)

	MOTHERWELL
		Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington and began to study painting at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles in 1926 when he was only 11.
		Motherwell's best known work is the 'Spanish Elegies' collection prompted by the Spanish Civil War, an event that moved him deeply but not begun until a decade later in 1949.
		Motherwell was highly prolific both as an artist and as a critic and lecturer.
	www.articons.co.uk /motherwell.htm (405 words)

	Hackett-Freedman: Robert Motherwell
		Robert Motherwell (1915–1999) was a pioneer and leading exponent of the postwar American abstract expressionist movement.
		A painter, collagist, printmaker, writer, and theorist, Motherwell, along with Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko, defined abstract expressionism by concentrating on its emotive possibilities and engagement with the subconscious and by departing from the formal concerns of European modernism.
		Robert Motherwell died in 1991 at the age of 76.
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	Robert Motherwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Motherwell wanted to combine the conscious world (the world in which we live) with the unconscious; he thus linked many of his abstract forms to the conscious world through his titles.
		Motherwell began the series in 1948, almost a decade after the war’s end, but recalled "I was twenty-one in 1936, and that was the most moving political event of the time."
		Motherwell’s studies in philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and aesthetics (Stanford, 1932-36; Harvard, 1937-38; Columbia, 1940) are reflected in many aspects of the "Elegy" series.
	www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/Motherwell.html (634 words)

	Robert Motherwell Oral History Interview Conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian ...
		ROBERT MOTHERWELL: My father was born in the Middle West, in Ohio, When he was a very young man his aspiration, for whatever reason, was to be a banker and to live in California.
		ROBERT MOTHERWELL: Because the painting departments were impossible, the English literature was Victorian literature, the psychology at Stanford was behaviorism, and I was already very interested in psychoanalysis.
		ROBERT MOTHERWELL: Looking at it now, and knowing what happened, it was a little bit as though I had spent two weeks in a very luxurious prison with four guys who were under a death sentence, and you talk and behave in an entirely different way from normal human discourse in a circumstance like that.
	www.aaa.si.edu /collections/oralhistories/transcripts/mother71.htm (20619 words)

	American Masters . Robert Motherwell \| PBS
		Born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1915, Motherwell first hoped to be a philosopher.
		Reflecting on those early years, he spoke of their belief that "if the abstraction, the violence, the humanity was valid in Abstract Expressionism, then it cut out the ground from every other kind of painting." It was this revolutionary sensibility that determined both his life and his art.
		Motherwell’s politics and spirituality were welcome reminders of a time when one could make art that did not engage the cynicism of a post-modern era.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/motherwell_r.html (689 words)

	Art Brokerage - Robert Motherwell Artist Page - Fine Art Classifieds
		Motherwell himself commented on this particular print calling it âfull of ambiguities, mountains, massive fls against pure white paper, rhythms of my arm-mind, immediacy yet not intimate.â This is the largest, simplest and most impressive print in the three print "Dance" series and illuminates Motherwell's mission in life to literally "strip art bare".
		Motherwell spent over a day trying to decide where to place the image on the sheet and finally decided to place it at the very top of the paper â“- to stress the ethereal nature of peace in 1970 and the ethereal wounded nature of peace even in our own time.
		Motherwell was particularly fond of this Phoenician imagery because he felt it consisted of certain universal gestural âsignsâ that were common to all cultures.
	www.artbrokerage.com /art/motherwell (2696 words)

	Acquavella: Robert Motherwell's Biography
		Familiar with contemporary French culture, Motherwell participated in the activities of the European Surrealists in exile in the United States, and he was active in the transformation and assimilation of European Surrealism by artists of The New York School.
		Frieze-like sequences of alternating vertical planes and biomorphic ovals in fl and white, the Elegies are dramatic and universal reflections on the brutality of political conflict.
		Once married to the influential painter Helen Frankenthaler, Motherwell is considered to have been a leading member of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists.
	www.acquavellagalleries.com /main/artist_bio.cfm?artist_id=148 (221 words)

	Robert Motherwell \| Biography (1915 - 1991)
		Robert Motherwell was born on the 4th January, 1915, in Aberdeen, Wash., US, and died on the 16th July, 1991, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, US.
		Motherwell received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1937 and enrolled for graduate work later that year in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		This year, Motherwell was given solo exhibitions at the Arts Club of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Art, and he participated in Fourteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
	www.leninimports.com /robert_motherwell.html (468 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell: Books: Motherwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Motherwell was acutely aware of the modern artist's isolation from society, and his theory of painting, which extolled free association as the artist's means of excavating his own psyche for universal archetypes, stemmed from that sense of apartness.
		Terenzio (The Prints of Robert Motherwell, Hudson Hills, 1990), formerly with the William Benton Art Museum, provides clear introductory notes to the chronologically arranged selections of essays, lectures, letters, interviews, prefaces, and exhibition catalog pieces, which date from 1941 to 1988.
		Motherwell is so wonderfully articulate, honest, and passionate that this collection should serve as the definitive source on Abstract Expressionism.
	www.amazon.ca /Collected-Writings-Robert-Motherwell/dp/0520221796 (533 words)

	Robert Motherwell - MSN Encarta
		Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), American painter, one of the founders of abstract expressionism and one of its most prolific and articulate exponents.
		Robert Burns Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington.
		His best-known works are The Crossing (1948, Rockefeller Collections, New York City) and his large, powerful, nonrepresentational series of paintings in fl and white, entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, consisting of more than 100 canvases inspired by the Spanish Civil War, and painted between 1949 and 1976.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561534/Motherwell_Robert_Burns.html (185 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Abstract sensation — Robert Motherwell's art displays romantic response to modern life
		Robert Motherwell (1915-91), painter, printmaker, author and editor once opined that abstract art was a romantic response to modern life because it was "rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable."
		Born in Aberdeen, Wash., Motherwell's family relocated to Salt Lake City (1919-26) where they lived until the 11-year-old was awarded a fellowship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles.
		By 1949 Motherwell was employing bold slabs of paint, often ovals or upright rectangles, simple, serene and massive forms applied in fl paint.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635187150,00.html (697 words)

	Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Robert Motherwell From the Collection: 1941–1990 Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Robert Motherwell is one of the figureheads of Abstract Expressionism, arguably the most important movement in the history of American art.
		The youngest of the Abstract Expressionists, Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1915 and studied philosophy in the 1930s at Stanford University and Harvard University.
		In the late 1940s, Motherwell embraced the tenets associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement: the canvas as an arena in which the artist engages spontaneously and passionately in the physical and mental action of painting; the composition, often monumental in size, charged with feeling; the abstract forms suggesting deep, open-ended meanings.
	www.themodern.org /motherwell_press2004.html (1354 words)

	ROBERT MOTHERWELL, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
		Robert Motherwell was born in 1915 and studied art in Los Angeles between 1926 and 1927 before obtaining a master degree from the Stanford University in 1936.
		Motherwell had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1944 and founded with Rothko and Baziotes an art school called «Subjects of the Artist» in 1948.
		Motherwell was accused in France has having widened the gap between European and American artists as he was wrongly considered as an opponent of French art.
	www.artcult.com /mother.htm (554 words)

	Robert Motherwell: A la pintura (To Painting)
		Motherwell, who had no technical training as a printmaker, relied on the skills and sensibilities of Steward to translate his painterly vision into print.
		Motherwell composed the sheets with as much attention to placement and color of words (English in fl, Spanish in colors) as to images, thinking in terms of medieval illuminated manuscripts, but conceiving a modern, abstract iconography to represent his artistic ideas.
		Alberti, whom Motherwell considered the greatest living Spanish poet of the time, belonged to the "Generation of '27," a group of poets who rose to prominence in the tumultuous period leading up to the Spanish Civil War.
	www.getty.edu /news/press/exhibit/motherwell.html (831 words)

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