Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwellwas an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth24 January 1915
CountryUnited States of America
consciousness ethical painter
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
innovation century collages
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
realizing ends thousand
In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.
painting problem abstract
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.
opposites trying painting
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.
incentives paint poor
Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.
everyday world way
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.
wine mean simple
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.
wine labels letters
To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.