Trivium Art History
Robert Motherwell —Painting as experience1915 — 1991
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1901
Amrita Sher-Gil
Anita Magsaysay-Ho
Robert Motherwell
Lee Jung-seob
Saloua Raouda Choucair
2000
A woman brings Indian tradition into modernism
Paint until you're 90, then keep painting
A life of longing
A lifetime of work in one room
The artists of Abstract Expressionism
Joan Mitchell — Art as competitive sport
1925-1992Willem de Kooning — Violent encounters
1904-1997Lee Krasner — Insomnia and aggressive painting
1908-1984Robert Motherwell — Painting as experience
1915-1991Helen Frankenthaler — The joy of pure color
1928-2011Cy Twombly — The power of the scribble
1928-2011Barnett Newman — Staring down the present moment
1905-1970Arshile Gorky —
1904-1948Clyfford Still — Painting with knives
1904-1980Adolph Gottlieb — Different times require different images
1903-1974Ad Reinhardt — "Art-as-art and nothing else"
1913-1967Elaine de Kooning — Writer, teacher, and a natural painter
1918-1989Robert Rauschenberg — Blowing up modernism
1925-2008Ahmed Yacoubi — Kaleidoscopic abstraction
1928-1985Mark Rothko — The hope of transcendence through color
1903-1970Norman Lewis — An artist must make their own way to contribute to culture
1909-1979Alma Thomas — Tackling abstraction at 75
1891-1978Seund Ja Rhee — Bringing Korean abstraction to Paris
1918-2009The artists of Surrealism
André Breton — A psychiatrist releases his mind and invents Surrealism
1896-1966Man Ray — Humor, sex, and a new camera
1890-1976Giorgio de Chirico — Enchanted space in the city of Nietzsche
1888-1978Leonora Carrington — "I'm not anyone's muse"
1917-2011Frida Kahlo — The exquisite agony of self-portraits
1907-1954Salvador Dalí — So much more than a mustache
1904-1989Pablo Picasso — The man who ate the world's art
1881-1973Méret Oppenheim — "X = an Orange Rabbit"
1913-1985Max Ernst — Trauma and displacement birth surrealism
1891-1976Kay Sage — "I have built an ivory tower of despair"
1898-1963Robert Motherwell — Painting as experience
1915-1991Claude Cahun — "Under this mask, another mask; I will never finish removing all these faces"
1894-1954Francis Bacon — The never-ending scream
1909-1992Nemesio Antúnez — Strange angles
1918-1993Bodo — Many souls to save
1953-2015Wifredo Lam — Hallucinating figures
1902-1982Milena Pavlović-Barili — The unblinking gaze of fashion
1909-1945Ülo Ilmar Sooster — A bad time to be an artist in the Baltics
1924-1970Leonor Fini — The brilliant bisexual cat-lady of surrealism
1907-1996Dorothea Tanning — Exploring the strange world of dreams
1910-2012