The Blue Painting Lesson: A Study in Painterly Logic, number one of five
Robert Motherwell
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Date:1973 -
Style:Abstract Expressionism -
Genre:abstract
The Blue Painting Lesson: A Study in Painterly Logic, number one of five
Robert Motherwell
The Blue Painting Lesson: A Study in Painterly, is part of a group of works composed between 1968 and 1972, known as the Opens series. It shares a simple but powerful formal construct with the rest of the series: a densely colored, almost monochromatic background highlighted by a two or three-sided box that enters the canvas from the top of the composition. This box is an abstract reference to the window views seen in the work of many European masters, and may also refer to the intersection of internal and external worlds in the life of the artist.
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