Nationalism  The initial piece in this group was an ink drawing for the second issue of the avant-garde periodical Possibilities, meant to accompany a poem by Harold Rosenberg. The artist said these pieces were "as basic as t
Nationalism  The initial piece in this group was an ink drawing for the second issue of the avant-garde periodical Possibilities, meant to accompany a poem by Harold Rosenberg. The artist said these pieces were "as basic as the polyphonic rhythms of Medieval or African or Oriental music," and was inspired after hearing a speech by Andre Malraux. The one painted on "Easter Day, 1971" is housed at the Guggenheim. All of these pieces feature two or three thick black bands which descend vertically down a horizontal white canvas – they are separated from each other by black ovoid shapes which are roughly-formed, and were associated by the artist with the testicles of a dead bull. Consisting of over 170 works completed from 1948 until the artist's death in 1991, a few years into this series its artist married Helen Frankenthaler and composed a related piece "At Five in the Afternoon." FTP, name this series of paintings by Robert Motherwell painted in remembrance of historical tragedy.
Nationalism  The initial piece in this group was an ink drawing for the second issue of the avant-garde periodical Possibilities, meant to accompany a poem by Harold Rosenberg.
{Elegy to the Spanish Republic} series (also accept {Elegies} or Elegy