PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
In 1940s New York City ROBERT MOTHERWELL (*1915, Aberdeen, WA-1991, Provincetown, MA) entered a milieu of artists whose radical new style of painting came to be known as Abstract Expressionism. A theorist of this informal group-including artists such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning-he taught throughout his life.
"In addition to the visual excitement and pleasure provoked by this exhibition, the works on display also demonstrate that Motherwell absorbed both instinct and intellect in his early formation, and his varied calibrations of the balances between them provided an endless stream of rich resources that fed his remarkable artistic journey.--Phong Bui ""Brooklyn Rail"" This catalog ventures into the captivating interplay between Motherwell's oeuvre and the venerable 19th-century French painting tradition, unraveling the intricate threads of his artistic kinship with Spanish painting techniques and methodologies.--Ghalib Dhalla ""Indulge"""
