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- July 29, 1991: Died:Robert Motherwell
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 52
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- <p> DIED. Robert Motherwell, 76, founding member of the Abstract
- Expressionist school of American painting; of a stroke; in
- Provincetown, Mass. Motherwell was one of the few Abstract
- Expressionists who wrote lucidly about painting, which he once
- described as "a state of anxiety that is obliquely recorded in
- the inner tensions of the finished canvas." He was especially
- renowned for the series he painted from 1949 to 1976 known as
- Elegies to the Spanish Republic, a sequence of funereal images
- that evoke prison bars and bullfighters' hats. Lauding
- Motherwell's collages, TIME art critic Robert Hughes said he was
- "the only artist since Matisse in the '50s to alter
- significantly the syntax of this quintessentially modernist
- medium."
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