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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way o...

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious...

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Robert Motherwell

Painter

Born: 1915-01-24

Died: 1991-07-16

Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an U.S. abstract expressionist painter. He was one of the youngest artists of the 'New York School' (a phrase he coined), which also included a.o. Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Phillip Guston. Motherwell initiated many art debates and publications in this art-scene.More