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Robert Motherwell On Paper: Gesture, Variation, And Continuity, University Of Richmond Museums
Robert Motherwell On Paper: Gesture, Variation, And Continuity, University Of Richmond Museums
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Robert Motherwell on Paper: Gesture, Variation, and Continuity
October 17 to December 13, 1997
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
Abstract art is stripped bare of other things in order to intensify its rhythms, spatial intervals, and color structure, a process of emphasis. - Robert Motherwell
The renowned Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), best known as a painter, produced a remarkable body of works on paper. His drawings, prints, and collages show an intimate side of his visual sensibility and reveal the very personal "handwriting" of the artist as he responded to the subtleties of paper, both as a medium and …