He evoked the horrors of World War II combat in a work which was intended to resemble blood-soaked bandages  the collage titled Surprise and Inspiration.
This artist served as general editor for the series Documents of Modern Art, which made available works of art theory like Paul Klee's The Thinking Eye. This artist was often influenced by poetry, such as his early paintings Mallarme's Swan, and The Voyage  the latter inspired by the Baudelaire poem  and his late series The Hollow Men. He evoked the horrors of World War II combat in a work which was intended to resemble blood-soaked bandages  the collage titled Surprise and Inspiration. Although he occasionally delved into figurative painting in works like (*) Spanish Prison (Window) and Pancho Villa, Dead and Alive, he is better known for large series of abstract series of shapes such as the Open series. His most well-known series mostly consists of pieces featuring alternating black ovals and rectangles on a white background. For 10 points, name this husband of Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract expressionist painter who created the series Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
This artist served as general editor for the series Documents of Modern Art, which made available works of art theory like Paul Klee's The Thinking Eye.
Robert Motherwell