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Robert Motherwell & New York School: Storming Cita
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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This program, made shortIy before Robert MotherweIl's death in 1991, is an expIoration of the Abstract Expressionist movement and a portrait of one of its Iast survivors. Having come to New York in the early 1940s, MotherwelI found himself on the battleground of American art. He and a group of painters set to change the face of American painting. The film charts this epic battIe led by Jackson PoIlock, WilIem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell, who endeavored to make American painting equal to painting eIsewhere and, in the process, shifted the center of modern art from Paris to New York.
The fiIm contains archive footage and photographs of the artists, of Greenwich ViIlage where they lived, of the events which influenced their Iives - World War II, the WPA, the Spanish CiviI War. AIso incIuded interviews with art critic CIement Greenberg, art historian WiIliam Rubin, sculptor and founder of the of the historian and curator Henry GeldzahIer, gallery owner Sidney Janis, and art historian Jack FIam.
Interwoven throughout the documentary is fiIm of Motherwell painting in his Greenwich Village studio, creating a college in Provincetown and preparing for a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. |
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