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Motherwell intended his Elegies to the Spanish Republic (over 100 paintings, completed between 1948 and 1967) as a "lamentation or funeral song" after the Spanish Civil War. His recurring motif here is a rough black oval, repeated in varying sizes and degrees of compression and distortion.
Beginning about 1948, Motherwell began making oil sketches and paintings that evolved into a series of more than one hundred variations on a theme he called Elegies to the Spanish Republic. Initially inspired by the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and contemporary poetry, his Elegies constitute an extended abstract meditation on life and death.
15 de mar. de 2022 · Motherwell realizó unas cuantas Elegías a la República Española (más de 100, entre 1948 y 1967). La que tenéis en pantalla es de las últimas. El artista quiso recordar una muerte terrible que no debe olvidarse, aunque las imágenes también son metáforas generales del contraste entre la vida y la muerte, y su interrelación.
Motherwell began the series Elegies for the Spanish Republic in 1948 and continued it for some twenty-five years, producing a group of over 150 paintings. Originally inspired by the poetry of Federico García Lorca and the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), the Elegies all share a similar compositional structure made up of brushily ...
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Art critic and historian, Dore Ashton: Motherwell was a true blue American. His father was a banker, which always embarrassed him. Unlike the others, he had gone to university.
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 108 (The Barcelona Elegy) Oil and acrylic on canvas. 84 147 in. (213.4 373.4 cm)
