With their interest in parody and appropriation
the arrangement of four “fluttering” hearts is remarkably pleasing
the"Light & Space" movement was blossoming on the West Coast
In contrast to the recent ominous smoky wildfire skies
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
ROBERT MOTHERWELL "AFRICA SUITE #10" , 1970 Aaron Siskind Lima With their interest in parodyRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in America and established New York City as the new center of the art world. Motherwell was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, editing a journal, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. The Africa Suite