09/01/2023
Many of Motherwell’s finest works are the prints he made: “In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception…to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best…better than say, painting or collaging or watercolor or drawing or whatever…Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.”
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 Motherwell Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) was a philosopher (with a PhD in philosophy from Harvard), writer and scholar. He brought those skills a...
