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MOTHERWELL Robert, born 1915 Aberdeen (WA)
- 1991 Provincetown (MA)
American painter and art critic.
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1935 |
Starting
in 1935, he studied philosophy, art history, aesthetics and
archaeology at Stanford University in California, at the
California School of Fine Arts, Valencia, at Harvard and at
Columbia University, New York. Worked as a painter, author,
publisher of art journals and teacher.
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1941 |
Together
with Kurt Seligman, experimented with printing techniques. Wrote
treatises on Automatism and theories of Surrealism. First
automatic drawings.
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1944 |
Publication
of first Documents of Modern Art, a series of articles by modern
artists.
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1945 |
Further
printing experiments in Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17.
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1945-51 |
Taught
at the Black Mountain College in Beria (NC).
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1948 |
Founded
the avant-garde school of art Subjects of the Artists with
Baziotes, Newman and Rothko.
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1950-59 |
Taught
at Hunter College in New York.
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1964 |
Participation
in documenta 3 in Kassel.
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1970 |
Lived
from 1970 until he died in Greenwich (CT).
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1977 |
Commission
for a mural for the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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Alongside Pollock and De Kooning, Motherwell is one of the
principal exponents of Abstract Expressionism and Action
Painting.
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