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- Title
Who and What Are Drawing Thus?
- Authors
Brummel, Kenneth
- Abstract
Approximately two years after Robert Motherwell abruptly stopped working on his I Lyric Suite i (1965), Roland Barthes, in his 1967 essay "The Death of the Author", inquired about the status of the narrative voice in Honoré de Balzac's I Sarrasine i (1830). But respecting Motherwell's intentions and focusing solely on the surfaces of his drawings, one learns that not only Mallarmé and psychic automatism are creative forces behind his I Lyric Suite i but also his then-wife and fellow Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. Just as Frankenthaler's acrylic medium sometimes oozed away from her diluted pigments, creating unexpected, semitransparent halations around her vibrant stains of color, Motherwell's inks also chemically separated, generating luminous orange bleeds in many of the I Lyric Suite i drawings.
- Subjects
MULTIPLE personality; YACHT racing; ART museums
- Publication
Brooklyn Rail, 2023, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2157-2151
- Publication type
Exhibition Review