Mon 09 Mar 2009 - Robert Motherwell
La Louviere: Centre le la Gravure
From January 24 to April 19, 2009
Robert Motherwell was born in 1915 in Aberdeen (Washington, USA) and died in 1991 in Provincetown (Massachusetts, USA), He was one of the great abstract expressionist artists of the New York School, which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, etc. in opposition to the Paris School.
In the 30’s he studied philosophy at the universities of Stanford and Harvard, before changing disciplines and starting art classes at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and art history at the Columbia University, under Meyer Schapiro. He was interested in symbolist literature, psychoanalysis and oriental art, but admitted that the true content of his art is rather emotional than mental. Robert Motherwell was familiar with the printing world, fascinated by books, literature and printing, and engraving was one of his favourite activities.
The exhibition shows a retrospective of his printed work through a selection of around sixty engravings characterised by their innovative and experimental aspects.