Some consider Motherwell���s collages to be his most
beautiful work with their broad areas of luscious colors
and spontaneous movement, punctuated with items
from everyday life: a fragment of sheet music, a Gauloises
cigarette package (the
color of Motherwell blue),
a cheese label, or a
postage stamp.
Motherwell was not intent
or searching for a literal
translation of his art. Like
the abstraction of music,
he felt that a painting
should be seen as a
unique entity with its own
���internal logic.��� Painting
for him was more about
the process than the end
result, which speaks to
the viewer. It can be sheer
joy or very hard work. ���It���s
everything from agony to
ecstasy,��� he said, but it
was mostly ecstasy.
Robert Motherwell
Beside The Sea No.18
1962
The ultimate object of art is an ecstatic or transcendental
experience. ... Ecstasy is not just joy. It���s much more
HYLAND
