“It?s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous,” abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell once said. “It?s more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.”
Motherwell, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Stanford, studied painting and art history at Harvard and Columbia, was a prolific writer, public speaker and multimedia artist, and could analyze with the best of them.
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