Robert Motherwell’s range of artistic achievement is vast, extending from drawing, printmaking, collage, and painting and his imagery as varied as it is layered with meaning. Motherwell relies on his characteristically limited palette that most often features black and white as the principal actors in his dramatic visual essays. The polarity between light and dark reinforces the contrast, but also structure pictorial organization even as they comprise its content: “Black is death, anxiety; white is life, éclat” (R. Motherwell quoted in J. Flam, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1991, p. 9).
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