ROBERT MOTHERWELL "ULYSSES: THE HOSPITAL" ETCHING 1988 joanne tod museum intervention "Self-Flagellation with Fruit" explores complex

"Self-Flagellation with Fruit" explores complex themes through amusing iconography and a clever dose of humor

and a division of East and West Berlin

ocean waves and shoreline scenes

The artist's signature bold colour enliven the complex geometric shapes that feature prominently in his work of this era

ROBERT MOTHERWELL "ULYSSES: THE HOSPITAL" ETCHING 1988 joanne tod museum intervention "Self-Flagellation with Fruit" explores complexRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century. While Motherwell's contribution to the art historical canon as a painter is undisputed, his role as a printmaker is arguably just as important. From the early 1960s until his