abstract art

abstract expressionism

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

printmaker

designer

painter

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Letters

abstract expressionist

innovator in the field of

art of painting

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. (Robert Motherwell)

is the first American art to be filled with anger as well as beauty.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. (Robert Motherwell)

Art is an experience, not an object. (Robert Motherwell)

is never 'pure'. It is always rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena which produces feelings toward red and its relations.

The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations...

Robert MotherwellThinkers

Robert Motherwell