How to paint like Mark Rothko - No 16 Red, Brown, and Black - with Corey D'Augustine | IN THE STUDIO

Learn how to paint like artist Mark Rothko, a major figure of the New York School in the decades following the Second World War. MoMA’s IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D’Augustine explains the techniques behind Rothko’s “Color Field” paintings.
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The Painting Techniques of Mark Rothko: No. 16 (Red, Brown, and Black)
Abstract Expressionist New York
The Museum of Modern Art, October 3, 2010--April 11, 2011
MoMA.org/abexny
Filmed by Plowshares Media
Images courtesy of Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Music by Chris Parrello
Chris Parrello, Ian Young, Kevin Thomas, Ziv Ravitz
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art
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[@themuseumofmodernart]

Tune in for a live Q&A with Corey on Wednesday, February 7 at 3:00 p.m. EST! He’ll be answering any questions you might have on artists, materials, and techniques. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ham2aYuVi5uHebc

[@ghostsoup1313]

Could you do a longer more in-depth how-to of Rothko, as you did with Agnes Martin & de Kooning? He's such a fascinating artist and 3 minutes doesn't do him justice. Thank you.

[@jasonme2u]

Okay, I just want to say something. I am an art historian and an aspiring artist and I have a degree in both field (just for 'credibility' sake and saying that I am probably the person people would expect to loooooveeee art and every single art work). I just wanted to say that you don't have to like every single painting, you need to have your own view. If you like most of them, it's fine, but just because you don't like them doesn't mean that you "don't know art", it just mean that you don't like that particular work.

[@roire]

i'd really love to see a rothko up close.

[@asmrtingletime4611]

Please do longer videos of these. GREAT series. its the reason im into art and Moma.

[@633r]

I saw these paintings at the Tate and they are massive and in the gloomy light it felt very strange and gloomy to see. I not really sure what I saw but it was amazing

[@daniesza]

Inthe 80s i experienced a Rothko retrospective at MoMa. I was alone in the halls and could take my time and really look without distraction. From hall to hall i began to sense I was looking at an autobiography, much like Rembrandts self portraits, I felt i was understanding his emotional life from age to age and I found myself side Lu and spontaneously weeping. I was crying in a museum. And then a smile would come to me in the next bright yellows, oranges, reds..... But in the last hall, among these enormous titans, these portals into what I felt was other worldly there hung a solitary dark black painting which may have been his last, as it ended the exhibit. It caught me by surprise and gasped I recall until I quite literally sobbed.... as if, as if I was in the presence of the death, of the leave taking of a friend. Rothko from then on has been my beloved favorite.

[@09materialistic]

I’m missing an EP of this video like the ones of de Kooning, Martin, Kasuma, etc., in my life. Please make these videos a regular thing again. Please please please. I find myself rewatching these all the time.

[@tonybinda6905]

Some comments are a mindset that I had. Over time my level of appreciation grew to the point where i started to craft some 16x20 and they are beautiful in my mind. Thank you mister Rothko

[@kavitadhillon1859]

I always cry when I look at paintings. I am a Lit teacher but paintings make me achieve a state of pure consciousness ♥️ God bless all the Artists who allow God to create directly through them💋 Only ART can save the world

[@cherchelaverite]

The best expression of Silent! This is how I aways felt about his painting! Silent with all its richness of colors, movements and emotions. Love his painting.

[@sunlogosis]

i seen the maroon one in madrid 2004. my 1st museum visit ever. never heard of rothko or any that wasnt van gogh, picasso, etc. i walked past, thought, "THIS is art?" i needed to figure out why. walked up to it abt 5 ft away. before i knew it i was 18 inches away. it began to engulf me, i started swaying and vertigo. i felt like i was in it. i had to back away before i fell into a priceless painting. i gave it another go and i was engulfed and stunned that paint has that much raw power. amazing.

[@BlueHat1]

I'm so glad that RM mentioned Mark in his Vlive or else I would not know about this amazing artist. His art is so moving and interesting.

[@TheStockwell]

Wonderful video, MoMA. The "DIY Rotho" segment at the end was well done. Judging by the comments below, it's obvious Rothko either works for you or it doesn't. Love it or hate it. And, as always, the haters are quite violent, the sort of people who'd happy to slash a canvas because other people enjoy it - and they don't. I'm an artist, by the way - very traditional and completely anti-avante garde. I hate - HATE! - the sort of stuff which wins The Turner Prize. My own idols are Rembrandt and Klimt. I'm a stuffy academic painter. I do landscapes and the trees need to be painted the way I see them. I use rulers and straight lines. That said, I find Rothko's work incredibly moving. I shouldn't. He's the enemy. There's no accounting for taste - even one's own.

[@lisengel2498]

I love this intense vibrational power of colors and the floating feeling of transparency of layers of colors and the soft mystery of the mysterious feel to the edges

[@halwis]

I would love to see a longer video demonstrating Rothko's style.

[@joseph-ow1hf]

Maybe one of my favorite painters ever.

[@adorablegirl1559]

I suffer from sleeplessness. And I always wonder what is the best thing to see before I finally gather some rest. I love your videos your voice is very calming

[@themuseumofmodernart]

Hey everyone, tune in this Wednesday, May 17 at 3:30 p.m. EDT for a *LIVE* Q&A with IN THE STUDIO instructor Corey D'Augustine. Corey will answer questions from previous videos, as well as from the live comments section. Watch live: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYKVeHd_a5xmotE

[@greenghost2008]

Rothko is an emotional thing. You either have an emotional reaction to it and love it or you feel nothing. Just because you feel nothing doesn't mean Rothko's style doesn't have meaning to those who do feel things looking at Rothko paintings.

[@davidkeith571]

Great video. Would love to see more of the demonstration paintings you were doing in the video. Very beautiful!

[@ceesvegh4904]

The same as there seem to be people who don't feel (or know the existence of) the beauty of let's say Strawinsky's music, not all people feel the beauty and depth of Rotkho's work. I feel blessed I do. His work now is exhibited in The Hague. Can't wait to see that!

[@timstangohr7859]

This is as close to kinetic art as a flat work can be. The people who hate it, likely have never seen a Rothko work in person, and taken the proper time to immerse themselves in full observation of it.

[@cobraki00]

Your videos provide more educational information than my college painting classes have.

[@BeaCanImation]

I have been wanting just this explainasion for awhile now.

[@garyji]

Very interesting technical explanation of Rothko's techniques.

[@gavloft]

Every time i see his paintings i burst into floods of tears!

[@chopin65]

I am always reminded of the organic quality of his color's interactions. For myself, it is the subconscious and the animal in nature. Great forces of instinct towards creation and destruction are at play. Human violence and peace are in direct opposition, and people become the casualties in the conflict. Rothko is an intellect of legendary importance because he used human nature as his subject. Rothko is eternal.

[@keter1234]

Layering stain over stain over stain doesn't move me emotionally.... for some reason. I've seen his paintings in person, and I certainly didn't cry.

[@sophieb2510]

I saw some of Rothkos work for the first time in the Tate when I was fifteen, and I remember audibly gasping when I saw them. Their huge scale and the richness of the colours was so gorgeous, and they had this sort of tranquil suspense (I don't know how else to describe it) that did make me feel really emotional. Yes, the concept can be seen as pretentious and a bit of bullshit, but I still love his work

[@Marcus_Sylvester]

It was short..., but very interesting and informative. Thanks a lot!

[@KevinTalks2AI]

Wonderful demo!

[@AudiobookLibrary24-7]

Always informative.

[@CoolThisIsMyUsername]

I think the true power of Rothko's paintings of this nature separates the over-generalizers from those whose inclination is to find the beauty in the odd and to look for connection or tether. Frankly, it's a brilliant way to expose the ruthlessly critical, if not lazy, a-hole, while at the same time complimenting the aesthete.

[@arnaudduquenoy2061]

Love your painting tutorials .. historic-technic mixing ❤️ .. would it be possible to get a longer video about Rothko painting technic (like the ones about Picasso / Willem de Kooning) ?

[@jguo52]

Just saw a Rothko in the NGV Melbourne gallery. This video helped me appreciate what his art was about and I was able to enjoy it so much more.

[@fredsalfa]

You should have shown us your finished Rothko version!

[@user-xc3ug6yn1l]

I didn’t expect Korean subtitle here. Thanks a lot. Es utilísimo.

[@yefekerhawala8611]

WELL DONE WELL DONE!!!!

[@angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl]

Beautiful work I love his art

[@ArtByHazel]

Love this! Thank you.

[@jimbronaugh]

Visual music. Interesting concept. I would like to explore this a great deal more.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Many years ago, an art gallery in Toronto paid a small fortune for a Rothko. So a newspaper in Toronto had a contest with kids doing paintings in a Rothko style. The sad truth was that for several of them, when a Rothko painting was placed among them, almost no one could tell the difference. lol

[@troymaiden7618]

I can feel it. Amazing

[@kumpeltyp1]

Question for the makers of that video: Do you let the previous layers dry before applying a new layer?

[@marcatkinson5187]

My parents were both artists and dragged me all the time to see these stupid boring big squares of whatever paint the guy had left over. So boring. Then, one day years later I saw a huge blue Rothko. I felt like I was falling into the color, and I saw many many different pools of color variance. It was pretty shocking. Years after that, I tried painting like this. It was far harder than I had imagined it would be, and only now do I understand why this work is so important.

[@1Ma9iN8tive]

Rothko - one day I will see in real life a Rothko ... And I know I will never be the same again after ... What a pure artists soul he was ... One of my favourites of all time

[@IETCHX69]

Mouth-watering .

[@jonathangozzo6051]

I advise people to look after earlier abstract compositions from Rothko. There you see if you had doubt that he was talented and expressed deep complex feelings, and he was not just doing stanns of colors. (if you were a sceptic or hater)

[@lartensgrill6106]

Amazing art

[@WoundedEgo]

I didn't cry.

[@cuoylyf]

Awesome!

[@zimpy2727]

You only think it's easy because Rothko has done it and it has been successful. The equivalent of how easy it is would be for you to go get a paint brush and paint the next big thing. Looking back and judging how simple something like a reverse engineer completely misunderstands how complex it was to produce this in the first place. That's like a scientist proclaiming "oh yeah i see how nature did it, pretty easy".

[@sevensilverpetals1601]

I agree with your post. The negative comments people have posted about the video just show their uneducated, insensitive ignorance.

[@johnnorthrup1240]

hindsight bias

[@angalbgarher]

To appreciate a composition like this, you actually have to know things. Some people just see a wallpaper, but as I try to educate myself on the contemplation of art, I feel able to proceed to greater questions. Like why red, and why that red, which on its own, is a color and a word that tell a story. The purity of that story, and how honestly it is told by Rothko, let me admire him more and more.

[@AngelasMixedMediaArtist]

Beautiful 😍 thx 😊

[@Thefarbetween]

Why are MoMA's comment sections just nothing but people who hate modern art? Why are you on this channel? Seriously, how did you even get to this video- and why did you click on it - if you hate Rothko so much?

[@patriciakirk4137]

You are s great teacher.

[@sanjeevmraman]

Hi- Great series. I’m curious, is the canvas you used in your demonstration primed/ gessoed or not? Is one able to achieve the same staining/ stain-painting effect as Rothko with gessoed canvas? Thanks

[@fishywtf]

beautiful pieces of colored rectangles, im crying

[@dianedurant4969]

Is it possible to see more instruction...the color combinations you used, the turpentine burn for color blocks, anything more!! Please!

[@blueapple9077]

I'm addicted to the way the presenter thinks

[@Richard_is_cool]

0:46 what's that painting in the background? :)

[@WhyX11]

More Rothko, please :)

[@giuliarzewski7243]

beautiful! what's the intro song?

[@creatifcorner]

So helpfull👌

[@un7ucky]

hey i know its been 10 years but are these still ongoing?

[@shine6667]

I did cry when I saw his works at Tate modern. His other works all over the world induced other emotions.

[@felissylvestris6557]

I don't understand how you could cry in front of one of these painting

[@lisengel2498]

I wonder whether something like this could be made with water mixable oils ?

[@JuanBosco]

So happy to discover your videos!!!, as a learning artist, I really appreciate them! ps: if you ever go to Frankfurt, come to say Hi to my gallery :)

[@missbehaving4710]

I'm only in high school. Would there be a way to do this with acrylics? Using glazes or mediums?

[@jonajon91]

Does anyone know the name of the painting briefly in frame at 3:19?

[@wegotlumpsofitroundtheback5065]

I was just at the MOMA this past weekend and saw this painting, Red Brown and Black. It's huge and it's absolutely startling and very emotional to see in person. But as I stood very close to it seemed to me that Rothko did not use a varnish to coat it when he was done. The other Rothko's hanging nearby seemed similarly untreated. Is this the case? The Pollack's also seemed untreated by varnish.

[@bonniegarson80]

Can you paint like this w acrylic paint? Love your videos👍🙏

[@SilverAqua]

what is the name of the music?

[@madewirayasa6821]

Tehnik super❤

[@mariadininni6219]

did you add water to the red color?

[@flipperdale51]

For the most part; the use of complimentary colors seems to be the secret to this kind of painting.

[@kizu00]

i love rothkos paintings... it's a pitty that they lose so much of their greatness in videos or prints. seeing them in reality is imo the only way to enjoy them. anyway thanks for explaining his painting techniques :)

[@DieSchlumpfmutze]

Esta hablando de la tecnica de Rothko, aunque dice que Rothko si mismo nunca habló de su tecnica. Dice que son los alrededores las partes más importantes, y que usó un montón de terpentina para que la pintura tendrá transparencia y asi podia montar un imagen con muchos colores en un sitio aunque parece que es muy sencillo. Luego dice que Rothko quería q la gente lloraría enfrente de sus cuadros.

[@charlene777]

intro background song?

[@binghamguevara6814]

There’s a Rothko painting that looks like it was painted from the pov of being on the moon. Anyone know the name of it?

[@TheAnasthetic]

Obvious question but are you using oils or acrylics ?

[@miloesalazar]

intro song?

[@XaloLugo]

Me gustaría un traductor de voz. me interesa el tema pero me entero de bien poco.

[@rainybeet]

The more of these I see the more apparent it becomes that the fascinating thing about these paintings is the person justifying the painting as a good work of art, not the painting itself. Critics and lovers of this sort of art seem to be missing that what they are doing is meditating. They are focusing so hard on one item that they start to see subtleties that they interpret as profound and make up a narrative in their mind that justifies the idea that this is good art. What they miss in not realizing this is that the same effect could be achieved by staring at textured drywall, carpet, a patch of dirt or grass, etc. These paintings are not evoking responses in people because of a grand vision of the artist, they are evoking responses because some people choose to pay very close attention to them.

[@King-balloon]

There’s a great video essay about Rothko and how he used music on “listening in “ you tune channel you should check it out it’s really good

[@MatthewFordAnimations]

So brave and clever!

[@Philippe1613]

I am standing in front of one of Mark Rothko's favorite patintings...Matisse's Red Studio. It's all about ambiguous spacial relationships and uses a deep, sonorous and pervasive red to allude to a real space. The painting also, informs my own work but to different ends. www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/267840-philippe-sauvie

[@johnjames3286]

Could you do how to paint like Hans Hoffman

[@user-fn3ks7fw5q]

what piano piece is this?

[@user-mh7ld8ki4y]

Classy

[@rayesposito3470]

I'm not on here to mock, the turpentine added to create like a thin watercolour wash is very inspiring.. experimental..

[@bethbartlett5692]

#Floating is the best # word for the beginners in Art, appreciating or painting. For the Artist, beginner or seasoned, #Staining is the next # word. #Artist applies to a painter regardless of experience level. Begin to refer to yourself as an Artist, in your private thought talks and social conversations, as this will build the energies around your self perspective and enhance the desired outcomes in the Now. Continued practice of this thought will bring the results quickly. "Thoughts + Feelings X Beliefs" = Our Frequency = Our Reality ✨ The "Universal Law of Attraction" is Absolute Quantum Physics Science validated. an Artist ...

[@jimmyhsp]

gotta love that youtube compression algorithm

[@brentdobson1939]

Busy world ...much outrageous stress....often still late in the day ( life) still coming down off the ceiling... so unwinding before art works is an item of restoration ....Rothko ...well given a bias of stress...I Would ..I believe..seeing a Rothco work.. ( and there are often I recall many images of them out and about here and there all over...).... simply float off the surface of their visual presence....rather than understand that they themselves in their images are of floating forms . Connecting....here with much deeper subtly is a reward of certain guidance . Coming to rest emotionally before the work is an invitation to fine tune inner emotional harmony till well .

[@blobropch0p]

I know now why Rothko is famous and he is not stupid.

[@hewwoitssam1203]

WOW corey you look so young here

[@dewamertanusaart2657]

👍❤️

[@dlam2864]

didn't rothko use acrilic?