watercolour with curtains

Paul Klee

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window, red and blue sill

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918

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untitled

Raoul de Keyser, 1998

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in praise of dialectics

René Magritte, 1937

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shade

Philip Guston

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Cy Twombly

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the open window

Pierre Bonnard
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la lunette d'approche

René Magritte, 1963

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my room has two doors

My room has two doors
and one window.
One door is red and the other is gray.
I cannot open the red door;
the gray door does not interest me.
Having no choice,
I shall lock them both
and look out of the window.

Kay Sage

image: My Room Has Two Doors by Kay Sage (1939)

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interior, strandgade 30

Vilhelm Hammershøi

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a corner of the artist's room in Paris

Gwen John
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asters by the window

Paul Klee

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l'atelier au mimosa

Pierre Bonnard

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a simple view

Hiroshi Sugito, acrylic on canvas

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bedroom window

John Singer Sargent, circa 1909

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the yellow curtain

Edouard Vuillard, 1893
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nu couché

Edouard Vuillard

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window in autumn

André Brasilier

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window

Philip Guston, Window (1970)

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open

The Open series is also crucial for a complete understanding of Motherwell's work. He began the Opens in 1967, responding to the impulse in European and American visual arts to regard painting as a window. The notion of the window had figured into his work from the beginning of his career, as early as 1941, when he painted the Museum's Spanish Picture with Window. The Open series represents Motherwell's joining of his longstanding interest in the window with his new notion of how to a make a painting. Each of the Open works, which are characterized by sparse visual components and serene, uncomplicated color, contain a charcoal-delineated rectangle (or three-sided rectangle), which the artist acknowledged partially derived from whitewashed adobe facades. He said, "I've always loved Spanish houses with those big, plain, stark facades, with a dark doorway cut out of the expanse, or say, two windows beautifully cut out of a magnificent whitewashed wall." (from Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)

Robert Motherwell
top: Open No.24 in Variations of Orange
bottom: Untitled (Open in Yellow, Black and Blue), 1971

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