complicated than that. I would say art���all the arts���
is the only means we have to express ecstasy in all its
dimensions. There���s nothing that a person in daily life
has, including multiple orgasms, that really approaches
the many-layered ecstasy of a great work of art.
Art
was
clearly
Motherwell���s passion. He
succinctly summed it up,
when he said that day in
Greenwich, ���The older I
get, the more I become
aware that all reality is in
flux. I���m an old man mad
about painting, and no
matter what the world
thinks, I will remain mad
about painting, which is
how I began and how I���ll
end.��� H
This article is an edited
version from Deborah
Forman���s book Perspectives on the Provincetown Art
Colony (Schiffer Publishing LTD, 2011).
Robert Motherwell
Beside The Sea No.5
1962
HYLAND