Robert Motherwell can truly be called the voice of the New York School of artists, both for his work as a teacher and writer chronicaling the work of colleagues such as Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, and for his extraordinary achievements in the mediums of collage, printmaking, and painting.

As early as 1947 Robert Motherwell understood how important process was to his work when he wrote, “I begin a painting with a series of mistakes. The painting comes out of the correction of mistakes by feeling. I begin with shapes and colors which are not related internally nor to the external world; I work without images. Ultimate unifications come about through modulation of the surface by innumerable trials and errors. The final picture is the process arrested at the moment when what I was looking for flashes into view.”

A jagged horizontal-vertical mesh organises the composition. The alignment of the edges of the cut, torn, and glued paper provides the grid, which has a physical, planar dimension. Not only does the paper structure the work architectonically, but it serves as a support for vigorously applied paint. The energy of handling and the uneven oval shapes separated by a black line in this early collage foreshadow the powerful facture and recurrent motifs of Motherwell’s later work. [Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, New York - Gouache, ink, and coloured paper and Japanese paper collage on paperboard, 103.8 x 65.9 cm]

Robert Motherwell Motherwell / Frankenthaler home 1967 via Wary Meyers Robert Motherwell and Myron Stout Robert Motherwell vi...

Title: God and Angels Artist: Christopher Fleming Medium: Mixed Media: Illustration & Digital - Archival Giclee Print Print Sizes: 17 x 11, 24 x 10.75, 36 x 16 or 50 x 22.3 Art Created: 2024 Print Run: Open C.O.A: Signed by the artist. Printed: 2024 (**If there are issues ordering the larger sizes, it could be the print size versus the shipping size - let me know if this happens, I will have to reset and figure out best shipping sizes with Etsy and get back to you) As a fan of work by LeRoy Neiman I attempted to capture the beauty of his work in a visionary view of angels lined up in heaven with the light of the creator in the middle. I did use paint applications similar to one of my favorite abstract artists, Robert Motherwell. I have one of his prints in my home and have always been fond of his black and white applications as well as his balance of color. This inspired me to learn and apply his style in my work but utilize with specific topics. Medium: This was created with a sketch, then a rough painting was done. It was then, arranged, and authored further digitally in AI using painted techniques, then taken into Photoshop for editing and alterations. I have personally signed each giclee print when they came off the press and cutting board. The print is on high-quality smooth matte paper with a small white border for signature. Weight is 280g with 12 mil thickness. It is acid-free, pH-neutral, and archival. They will be shipped professionally with a protective backing board and a clear plastic sleeve in a white ULINE protective envelope. These prints are ready to be professionally matted and or framed.

In 1950, when the painter Robert Motherwell invented the phrase "The School of New York," he summed up its mission as "an activity of bodily gesture serving to sharpen consciousness."