Drawing With Color: Robert Motherwell鈥檚 Lyric Suite
This group of sixteen drawings from the Birmingham Museum of Art鈥檚 permanent collection represents a small portion of Robert Motherwell鈥檚 1965 Lyric Suite series. Totaling around 565 works, this series of small, intimate drawings reflects Motherwell鈥檚 interest in form, materials, and chance. Lyric Suite also reveals the artist鈥檚 great capacity for what fellow artist Helen Frankenthaler called 鈥渄rawing with color,鈥� or conveying authentic emotion through color. This small exhibition explores the creative motivation, techniques, and process behind Motherwell鈥檚 series and the lasting influence it left on the artist.
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This group of sixteen drawings from the Birmingham Museum of Art鈥檚 permanent collection represents a small portion of Robert Motherwell鈥檚 1965 Lyric Suite series. Totaling around 565 works, this series of small, intimate drawings reflects Motherwell鈥檚 interest in form, materials, and chance. Lyric Suite also reveals the artist鈥檚 great capacity for what fellow artist Helen Frankenthaler called 鈥渄rawing with color,鈥� or conveying authentic emotion through color. This small exhibition explores the creative motivation, techniques, and process behind Motherwell鈥檚 series and the lasting influence it left on the artist.
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