Thank you so much. I truly enjoyed this informative video 🙂

It's cr*p that would never have reached it heights without cia support.

fountain was lost? so is the one on display in paris a replica?

So your thesis is that people in the past weren't sophisticated enough to understand a rothko but everyone now is? wow. that's quite the theory!

"he took something from all these works". What was that something?

The boxing one with the halo… the halo looks like a Birdseye view of a stadium as well. Maybe it was on the boxers mind, fame and success at the top of his game.

Magic!!!!

Mark Rothko believe that art should have no real forum vision or talent and I must agree. He hit it out of the park on all three.

Jean Michel Basquiet:" Was the pinical of ART AND THE BEST ARTIST EVER SEEN IN THE TWENTY-CENTURY": HE'S GOT MY LOVE ❤ANND I WILL BE WORKING ON TOGETHER WITH HIM IN. THE AFTERWORDS.. love your little artwork and musical friend; Charlie Jarvis ❤

Rhis who JZ wants to look like a G*y painter

still you explain nothing

What is it?🤔🖼🎴👨🏻‍🏫👛🥽🌄🧑‍🎨📸

make art not crime.

Womanizing is what a real man does. Dont ever forget that.

Leftists hate him cause he was a REAL man

His art is boring

An artist so good he litteraly just started throwing shit at the wall (or canvas should i say) seeing if it sticks and people would call it a masterpiece just because of the mythology around his name

Supported by the CIA, this isn’t art but rather propaganda. And it’s really bad.

This stuff still goes on to this day.

Nope.

a wonderful sketch

On a visit to DC a few years back, I finally got an opportunity to view Rothko's work in the National Gallery of Art. I had no idea what to expect, but 5 seconds after walking into that room, filled with Rothko's paintings, I can truly say, for the first time in my life I was awe-struck! A wonderful experience never to be forgotten.

I never was one for art until I saw his art piece: 210 211 Orange. It’s simple at first glance, but it’s more of the time this was made; that art can be spiritual. The lack of complexity skewed down to simple colors and square-like shapes beckons you to sit down and just look. Granted we live in a faster world, but Rothkos make me want to stop running through life and instead sit down and just think. This particular art piece looked a lot like a window eclipsing a evening descending sunrise. Almost as if a tease or hint towards something just an arms stretch away.

The comments are great- when you put it out there that someone is moved to tears by Rothko, then some precious asshole has to say they were, as if they hold some ability to devine deeper meaning in a piece of art- that has none. This is what I mean, if you cried looking at this, you are not deep- you're a zombie.

Ughh. Stop. Why the fuck does everybody feel the need to reiterate something Rothko said himself, that he witnessed people being moved to tears by his work- when it never fucking happened. And then some asshole hears this in some other video- and it's repeated ad fucking nausea until it becomes a truth- simply from repetition ? I loathe abstract expressionism. That, being said, I don't mind Rothko's- his stuff is alright. But let's stop acting like he's the greatest abstract painter ever or that his works are monuments to emotion- which you have to really be delusory to feel. They look nice, they're interesting, that's it. No big mystery in them, no hidden meanings, just some ok looking art. The moved to tearsbullshit makes me want to fucking puke, b/c I know it's not true and him recounted it= never fucking happened. Abstract Art is a way for someone w/o much painting skill to feel like they are an artist= when they are not, THAT's what Ab Expressis.

I was working at The Walker Art Center as a security guard during a Rothko show back in the 1980's. I had not experienced a lot of abstract art prior to this and was just learning to appreciate it. I stood in front of a Rothko one day and tried to understand what I was supposed to "get" out of this simple arrangement of blurry rectangles. Eventually I found myself absorbed into the pure mood of the colors and became aware of how they seemed to go on layer after layer. A learned a lot about how to experience certain kinds of work that day.

Great Artist that broke on thru! I would love to own one!! RIP SWEET PRINCE 🥀

A hack w/ a sourpuss attitude. Basic no-frills "street art" . Right Place / right time / right Warhol support. End of story.

Smart move from the CIA.

Kant says that there is no way of us knowing things in themseleves as they are, and we can only know things how they represent themselves to us through our senses and using theese inputs we create concepts with the help of our imaginations. I think that Rothko somehow achieved to convey things as they truly are without using any forms, symbols or figures. Thats why his work transcends the dimension that we are in.

Great artists are not always adorable human beings. No matter what medium they work in - art, music, literature, theater, whatever. So what. They live for their art and rightly so. Those who take up with them should realize this. You either take them on their own terms and quit whining or forget it. Go marry an insurance salesman.

Modigliani.

Picasso is the most over-rated artist of all time.

He also nursed a terminal girlfriend with cancer to death! It's trendy to call him mysoginist and forget how fabulous a painter he was! I notice nobody knocks Georgia O Keefe for living alone in the desert relinquishing relationships so she can concentrate on her artwork! They'll never forgive Picasso for being a workaholic something admirable in others who strive for excellence! How much is jealousy envy and desire to be as famous as him! Plus he's first to admit Velasquez was probably the greatest of all time and he couldn't paint like him until his 70's and his exhibition in UNSW art gallery was absolutely brilliant and overwhelming!

CIA is all over KZbin.

The painting he done at 14 of the girl kneeling at the altar I was most impressed by

If a Martian came down and tried to figure out what the word "genius" means, they might very well conclude that it's another word for "asshole."

Just goes to show in the end he was just a dickhead ...

Once you see the naked hatred of women in his paintings...

Thx for sharing his a genius and talented.🙌🏻🙌🏻

I like Picasso even better now. What a great video. Oh to be a genius womanizer

That's amazing 😂😂😂

So many angles on Picasso in this one short video. I learned a lot. Appreciate that you chose to end it by talking about his abusive relationships. No amount of genius can excuse the way he treated people

He lived his art. No?

You say Rothko died with 800 unsold paintings. How many did he sell during his lifetime? Does anyone know?

Lucky for him, he was a well off white guy so he could get away with this and earn a lot of money.

Picasso is the Mask behind his paintings. Fucking brilliant

Very educational video… but Rothko?? eye rollllllllll

I always feel like I'm inside of it, I live in a rural area with plenty of fields and farms that I walk through and sometimes when the light hits the Earth at a specific point at a specific moment in time I gain this experience that can be ecstatic or nerve wracking, the clue is in the name "colour field". I once had to walk through a pitch black field with my ex both drunk and steadying eachother and it wasn't like the typical moment in time that you drink in but rather be swallowed up by and that's how his black and grey painting makes me feel. The tragedy is that these moments we have with Rothko, ourselves and loved ones are all fleeting. That's just me though, think for yourself and you'll find something that touches your heart as well. Also watch "Red" that play is breathtaking and I find is a good start for beginners on how to best interpret one of his works.

Your claim of “obvious” African mask influence likely means you know very little about Picasso’s vast collection of European,Asian and pre-Columbian mask..