Born in Aberdeen, Washington in 1915, painter and printmaker Robert Motherwell grows to become a highly educated intellectual and perhaps the most talented artist of the modern era. No one was more influential than Motherwell as far as Abstract Expressionism is concerned, with his teachings and publications becoming synonymous with the art movement itself. His modernist ideas are well-represented in his work, with major themes such as European modernism meeting the new American vision as well as Surrealism, and he documents the relationship between technique and emotion through his years of study, practice and discipline. Robert Motherwell has solidified his place in the art world as the most important figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement
