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<text id=91TT1682>
<title>
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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<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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