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Robert Motherwell

Personal Details Name Robert Motherwell Place of Birth Aberdeen, Washington Date of Birth January 24, 1915 Date of Death July 16, 1991 (aged 76) Field Painting, Printmaking Nationality American Movement Abstract expressionism Training Stanford University, Harvard, Columbia University

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    Motherwell's greatest goal was to use the staging of his work to convey to the viewer the mental and physical engagement of the artist with the canvas. He preferred using the starkness of black paint as one of the basic elements of his paintings. He was known to frequently employ the technique of diluting his paint with turpentine to create a shadow effect. His long-running series of paintings "Elegies for the Spanish Republic" is generally considered his most significant project.

   Motherwell was a member of the editorial board of the surrealist magazine VVV and a contributor of Wolfgang Paalens journal Dyn, which was edited 1942-44 in six numbers. He also edited Paalens collected essays Form and Sense in 1945 as the first Number of Problems of Contemporary Art.

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