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 I want.
Robert Motherwell Quotes
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
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| Birth: | 24th January, 1915 |
| Death: | 16th July, 1991 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Editor, Painter |
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Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston.
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