Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head…everything he paints is both an homage and a critique.
Robert Motherwell Quotes
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.
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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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