The energy in the negative space radiates with emotion
D'Arcangelo valued subject over style
Katz and Berkson had known one another since the 1960s
the shapes seem almost personified
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ROBERT MOTHERWELL "BASQUE SUITE #12" SCREENPRINT, 1971 rent party 1950s The energy in the negativeRobert 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. An uncommonly gifted communicator, Motherwell was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School of painters, writing, editing a journal, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and