ultramarine blue is one of the most beautiful colors or
lemon yellow or fire engine red.���
The color blue, he said, comes from Provincetown. In
New York, he said, the shade is called ���Motherwell Blue.���
���All summer I see blue and white and sand color more
than anything else, so I begin to use those colors a lot. It���s
like osmosis; the colors
fill me.��� It is these colors,
you will see in the Beside
the Sea exhibition. And
several works in the show
relate to the Open series,
one of Motherwell���s most
important groups of work.
Composed with a ���U���
shape drawn on a flat field
of color, the works in the
Open series combine the
painterly with the gestural
approach.
The
���U���
suggests a window or a
door opening up to a vast
space. The influences for
this series can be related
Robert Motherwell to Mondrian���s geometric
Beside The Sea No.26
and Matisse���s
1962 forms
colors.
HYLAND
