Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Homevision
• VHS Release Date: June 20, 2000
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303108652
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,418 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This program explores the Abstract Expressionist movement through one of its most important artists: Robert Motherwell. In the early 1940s, Motherwell and a group of maverick artists (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline) set out to change the face of American painting, shifting the center of modern art from Paris to New York. Featured is Motherwell's last major interview, in which he speaks at length about his work.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Personal and Gripping!, January 1, 2006

By 

G. Henley "Artist" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Robert Motherwell & New York School [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video was purchased by me at the Whitney Museum of Art on
a whim, I knew nothing about Robert Motherwell at the time. I was
very happy when I watched it because as soon as I heard him speak
I knew it would be good. Motherwell offers an intimate account of
himself and his entry into the abstract expressionist art movement,
his friendships with his fellow artists from abroad are touching,
he helps them to understand our culture and its laws,
and they in turn teach him to express himself in art!
This is one of the best documentaries on art ever made, the first
hand accounts of the "Eighteen Iracibles" and thier exploits
both on the canvas and in the "Cedar Bar" and elsewhere will
be interesting and encouraging to modern artists. I highly
recommend this video, worth every moment of your time, no matter
what type of painting you do!

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must " for anyone wanting to understand art, April 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Robert Motherwell & New York School [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Robert Motherwell describes us on an intimate tone his journey, and that of his comrads, in their quest for expressing "the human soul". Motherwell explains us here in his own words, about the abstract expressionism movement to which he was a protagonist, and how it was about "what one feels" being more important than "what one thinks". Moving, with intelligent narration.