On this date in 1915, American painter Robert Motherwell was born in the state of Washington. According to Wikipedia: He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined). Motherwell’s work encompassed both the expressive brushwork of action painting and the breadth of scale and saturated hues of color field painting.
The New York School (synonymous with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
They often drew inspiration from surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world’s vanguard circle.
The New York School also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Motherwell died in 1991.
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