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Title
At
Five
in the
Afternoon
.
Creator
Motherwell, Robert (American painter, printmaker, and author, 1915-1991)
Date
1949
Cultural Context
American
North American
Spanish
European
Style/Period
Modern (styles and periods)
Abstract Expressionist
Abstract (fine arts style)
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Abstraction
Allusion
Fantasy
Imagination
Elegies
Poetry
Identity
Metaphor
Culture
Cultural heritage
Freedom
Fascism
Deaths
Life
Wars
Civil wars
Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939
Animals
Bulls (animals)
Phallic
Subject
Paintings
Casein paintings
Tempera paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Allusions
Fantasy
Poetry
Liberty
Death
Fascism
Civil wars
War
Bulls
Animals
Description
"This
painting
deliberately
combines
a
host
of
allusions
to
Spanish
culture
such
as the
stark
black/white
contrasts
of
Goya
,
Velasquez
, and
Picasso
, the
Spanish
poet
Lorca's
lament
to a
dead
bullfighter
,
'Llanto
por
Ignacio
Jánchez
mejías'
, and the
(related)
enlarged
images
of a
bull's
genitalia
(a
powerful
metaphor
for the
'virility'
of
Abstract
Expressionism
[…])
. The
Spanish
Civil
War
was also at
issue
here and the
rounded
forms
pressing
against
dark
'bars'
generate
weighty
metaphorical
contrasts
between
freedom
and
constraint
,
life
and
death.
"
(Caption
,
p.24)
; "The
Abstract
Expressionists'
hankerings
after
(prewar)
European
sophistication
often
sat
uneasily
alongside
their
desire
to
assert
their
'American-ness'
.
Robert
Motherwell
is
significant
in this
respect
. He was the
most
intensively
educated
participant
in the
group
(he
studied
at
Harvard
and
Columbia
University)
, and in the
early
1940s
had been
close
to the
émigré
Surrealists
.
Later
in that
decade
he
became
affected
by the
poetry
bound
up
with
Surrealism's
artistic
predecessor
,
Symbolism
, in
particular
that of
Baudelaire
and
Mallarmé
. This
esoteric
climate
lies
behind
the
literary
allusions
packed
into his
large
series
of
Elegies
to the
Spanish
Republic
initiated
by At
Five
in the
Afternoon
of
1949
, a
work
rooted
in
Motherwell's
imaginary
identification
with the
Spanish
struggle
against
Fascism
. By
identifying
with
Europe's
recent
past
Motherwell
could
be
seen
as
commenting
ironically
on the
draining
of
political
purpose
from
Abstract
Expressionist
art
.
[…]
However
, on
other
occasions
Motherwell
sacrificed
his
European
credentials
to
argue
for
America's
new-found
aesthetic
superiority.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.23-24)
Material
Casein on canvas
Canvas
Casein
Tempera
Water-base paint
Paint
Measurements
38.1 x 50.8 cm
Technique
Painting (image-making)
Work Type
Paintings
Abstract paintings
Abstract works
Tempera paintings
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.24, fig.12)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Dedalus Foundation, © Estate of Robert Motherwell/VAGA, New York, DACS, London, 2000.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-38.jpg
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