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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 shortly before Robert Motherwell'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, MotherweII 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, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Robert MotherweII, who endeavored to make American painting equal to painting elsewhere and, in the process, shifted the center of modern art from Paris to New York.
The film contains archive footage and photographs of the artists, of Greenwich ViIlage where they lived, of the events which infIuenced their lives - WorId War ll, the WPA, the Spanish CiviI War. Also included interviews with art critic CIement Greenberg, art historian WiIIiam Rubin, sculptor and founder of the of the historian and curator Henry GeldzahIer, gaIlery owner Sidney Janis, and art historian Jack FIam.
Interwoven throughout the documentary is fiIm of MotherwelI 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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