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Born in 1915 in Aberdeen (Washington, USA), Motherwell decided to devote himself professionally to art at the age of 26, after an extensive education in both Philosophy and Art History at the universities of Stanford, Harvard and Columbia. Motherwell became a leading spokesman for the Abstract Expressionist movement and was greatly influenced, like many of his contemporaries, by the Surrealists. This introduced to Motherwell ‘automatism’, a practice that strives to create without conscious thought. Throughout his career, he stated that his work was an experimentation in visualising his …