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0 0Robert Motherwell
Geburtstag: 24. Januar 1915
Todesdatum: 16. Juli 1991
Robert Motherwell war ein US-amerikanischer Maler des Surrealismus und Abstrakten Expressionismus.
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„Don't underestimate the influence of the Surrealist state of mind on the young American painters [like his artist-friends William Baziotes and w:Roberto Matta in those days.“
— Robert Motherwell
Abstract Painting, Thomas Hess, New York, Viking 1951, p. 132
„Great art is never extreme. Criticism moves in a false direction, as does art, when it aspires to be a social science... In this world modern artists form a kind of spiritual underground.“
— Robert Motherwell
Motherwell's writing in 1944; as cited in 'Robert Motherwell, American Painter and Printmaker' https://www.theartstory.org/artist-motherwell-robert-life-and-legacy.htm#writings_and_ideas_header, on 'Artstory'
„All my life I've been working on the work - every canvas a sentence or paragraph of it. Each picture is only an approximation of what you want. That's the beauty of being an artist; you can never make the absolute statement, but the desire to do so as an approximation keeps you going.“
— Robert Motherwell
as cited by Grace Glueck, in 'Robert Motherwell, Master of Abstract, Dies', by Grace Glueck, 'New York Times, 18 July 1991 https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/18/obituaries/robert-motherwell-master-of-abstract-dies.html
„.. a plastic weapon with which to invent new forms.. [remark in 1951 on the concept of automatism ].“
— Robert Motherwell
Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 79
„It would be very difficult to formulate a position in which there were no external relations. I cannot imagine any structure being defined as though it only has internal meaning.“
— Robert Motherwell
Modern Artists in America, First Series, R. Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt and B. Karpel eds., 1952; as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 40
„When I first saw the work of Matisse I knew that was for me.“
— Robert Motherwell
Conversation with W.C. Seitz, in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983
„I begin [a painting] from an impulse, an intense and irrational desire that takes you over, prompting you to start moving. And from experience, with some knowledge of what moves oneself, I think it's not altogether arbitrary what one begins with.... certainly implicit partially is the feeling, not that 'I am going to paint something I know' by 'through the act of painting I'm going to find out exactly how I feel'.“
— Robert Motherwell
as cited in Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 111
„The activity of the artist makes him less socially conditioned and more humans. It is then that he is disposed to revolution. Society stands against anarchy; the artist stands for the human against society; society therefore threats him As an anarchist. Society's logic is faulty, but its intimation of an enemy is not. Still, the social conflict with society is an incidental obstacle in the artist's path.“
— Robert Motherwell
pp. 36-37
„Among other ends, modern art is related to the ideal of Internationalism.“
— Robert Motherwell
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950's, An Illustrated Survey, Herskovic, Marika; nyschoolpress, 2003, p.238
„.. there is a real Dada strain in the minds of the New York School of abstract painters that has emerged in the last decade.“
— Robert Motherwell
The Dada Painters and Poets, Schultz, Wittenborn, New York 1951, p. xiii
„Every intelligent modern painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head.“
— Robert Motherwell
Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 22
„Plastic automatism.... as employed by modern masters, like Masson, Miro, [both artists of Surrealism] and Picasso, is actually very little a question of the unconsciousness. It is much more a plastic weapon with which to invent new forms. As such it is one of the twentieth century greatest formal inventions.“
— Robert Motherwell
Modern Painter's World, Robert Motherwell , Dyn, Nov. 1942, p. 13
„Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.“
— Robert Motherwell
1951; as cited in 'Robert Motherwell, American Painter and Printmaker' https://www.theartstory.org/artist-motherwell-robert-life-and-legacy.htm#writings_and_ideas_header, on 'Artstory'
