Friday, 17 March 2017

A day in the life: Robert Motherwell




I believe that painters' judgements of painting are first ethical, then aesthetic, the aesthetic judgements flowing from an ethical context… 
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator. 
Without ethical consciousness, the audience is only sensual, one of aesthetes. 
Robert Motherwell, quoted by Steven Tonkin, National Gallery of Australia 


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