Like other surrealists, Motherwell utilized an artistic process called Automatic Drawing, or scribbling from the unconscious mind, to find a jumping-off point.
“My vocabulary works like poetry,” Robert Motherwell once said of his artwork’s visual language. Career. During this decade, he was most influenced by European surrealists, including Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy and André Masson. Robert Motherwell, "Je t’aime" 1955, Ink on paper Robert Motherwell, a self-admitted Francophile, used this romantic phrase to express his deeply felt passion for artmaking. During his tour to Mexico with painter Roberto Matta, Robert Motherwell made his first sketches. Bernard Jacobson Gallery is delighted to announce Robert Motherwell: Abstract Expressionism (16 September – 26 November 2016). In 1941, after traveling to Mexico with Chilean surrealist Matta Echaurren, Motherwell decided to paint full time and moved to Greenwich Village.
The artist’s collages were the preliminary stepping stone—essential to the development of his canvas works, even if laden with blatant struggles in composition and in color. Robert Motherwell at 100: ... Ellen Landau looks at an earlier phase of Motherwell’s career in her insightful and detailed study Mexico and American Modernism (Yale University Press, 2013).
The son of a well-to-do and conservative bank chairman, Motherwell was expected to follow in his father's footsteps. These sketches later turned out to be major works, the likes of Little Spanish Prison and Dead and Alive. Robert Motherwell: A Field of Inexhaustible Meaning Carter Ratcliff Carter Ratcliff is a Contributing Editor at Art in America and the author of The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
“It … Item Details. During the time he spent in Mexico, Motherwell’s influence by the Parisian Surrealists (Max Duchamp, Masson) prompted some of his most important work in Mexican Past.
Robert Motherwell’s Oaxaca is a bold display a confidence in color, gestural automatism, and collaged forms that was not present in his earliest collaged works.
Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington on January 24, 1915, the first child of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell.
Biography of Robert Motherwell.
Finding his place in the Abstract Expressionism hall of fame alongside Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell is best known for his Elegy to the Spanish Republic series which he worked on throughout his life—over 140 paintings memorializing the injustices of the Spanish Civil War featuring bold black shapes on a white background.
Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1915, but he would spend much of his childhood in the dry environs of central California, where he was sent in an effort to relieve his severe asthma. Buy, bid, and inquire on Robert Motherwell: Three Poems/Octavio Paz on Artsy. Robert Motherwell (American, 1915 – 1991) Mexico City Personages III, 1987 Lithograph on paper Initialled “RM” to the lower right Marked “PP” (Printer’s Proof) to the lower right