Motherwell

Manny Silverman Gallery

 

Two conditions obtain: line and volume. More is not company.

 

The line is calligraphic to the point of script. Volume is form.

 

The conditions are too amusing, the critics are too dull, for words.

 

He is like Samuel Beckett, in this regard.

 

 

Robert Motherwell
Elegy Study #4
acrylic and pencil on canvasboard
12 x 30"
1983

 

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