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Motherwell/Alberti

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Release Date

January 1, 1984

Duration

15 min

Status

Released

Language

en

Overview

Motherwell/Alberti explores the artistic connection between Robert Motherwell's Open Series and Rafael Alberti's poetry cycle, A La Pintura. Infatuated with Alberti's text, Motherwell uses his words as the subject for his first venture into aquatints at Tatyana Grosman's printmaking workshop. Historic footage shows Alberti, the last member of the Garcia Lorca generation, reading his poetry aloud. His poetic themes voice an homage to painting, which Motherwell's set of abstract "windows" delicately complements.

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Robert Motherwell

Self

Robert Motherwell

Rafael Alberti

Self

Rafael Alberti

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