Nam June Paik
American video art pioneer (1932-2006)
Robert Motherwell
American artist (1915-1991)
Robert Motherwellwas an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
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Robert Motherwellwas an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
Trained in philosophy, Motherwell then became an artist regarded as among the most articulate spokesmen and the founders of the abstract expressionist painters. He was known for his series of abstract paintings and prints which touched on political, philosophical and literary themes, such as the Elegies to the Spanish Republic.
8 Quotes by Robert Motherwell
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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Robert MotherwellAmerican artist (1915-1991)
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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Robert MotherwellAmerican artist (1915-1991)
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It’s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It’s more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Robert MotherwellAmerican artist (1915-1991)
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert MotherwellAmerican artist (1915-1991)
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Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Robert MotherwellAmerican artist (1915-1991)
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If you can’t find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
Robert MotherwellAmerican artist (1915-1991)
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Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Robert MotherwellAmerican artist (1915-1991)
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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Robert MotherwellAmerican artist (1915-1991)