In the Tower Mark Rothko

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WOW! Thanks for uploading I have never seen such good explanations on Rothko work.

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this is beyond beaufigul

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I wonder if he enjoyed the edges as much as I do. Edges fade away as he did in his life.

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When somebody can't paint figures then resorts to paint garbage. Rothko, Chagall and Pollock are clear examples.

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But Rothko painted figures ( Bathers or Beach Scene 1933/34 + Portrait of Mary 1938/39 ) before his art style slowly evolved into abstract expressionism

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@@1112-k1g LOL, you are not serious, are you? The portrait of Mary is just as good as a child drawing, and the others are nothing more than grotesque monsters or humanoids suffering the terrible parasitic disease called elephantiasis. Please google images of "elephantiasis". Bouguereau was a good figure painter, a man with painting skills. Rothko was just a hyped fraudster.

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@@redangrybird7564 Rothko was influenced by surrealism and Avant-garde, so it’s no wonder grotesque elements are involved in his early paintings and drawings. What inspired him to move towards abstract expressionism was the psychoanalysis surrounding the unconscious as well as paintings by indigenous folks, the manifesto he wrote but never published, which his son Christopher Rothko published decades later, gives further insight into his motives, inspirations and overall general thoughts of art. 🙂 Kaikai Kiki Co., for example, isn’t particularly comparable to other art styles and that’s precisely the point, each artist or artistic movement for that matter is supposed to reflect the Zeitgeist

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@@1112-k1g Abstract expressionism opened the gates for many other forms of garbage "art". For example, conceptual "art" is the result of individuals who call themselves "artists", without any skill or talent whatsoever except the capacity to con other people. A plastic bucket half full of human urine and excrement in the middle of a room is just that, but it magically transforms into a wonderful piece of art when it is accompanied by a 5 kg thesis explaining the psychological and sociological justification for its existence. Sorry but I still don't buy it. The tin cans of Piero Manzoni are NOT art in my book. Contemporary conceptual "art" is a product of the decadent times we happened to live, the "zeitgeist".

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@@redangrybird7564 I agree with you on conceptual art, but abstract expressionism ( and other art styles ) also opened the door for performance art, which I love ( Ana Mendieta, for example ). What fascinates me personally about abstract expressionism, specifically Rothko, is, as James Turrell once remarked about his own artworks: „With no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.“ But again, his manifesto „The Artist’s Reality“ gives further insight into his motives and inspirations, „Pictures & Tears - A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings“ by James Elkins ( which is available as a free PDF: monoskop.org/images/0/0f/Elkins_James_Pictures_and_Tears_2004.pdf ) also talks about Rothko, one of my favorite books. The word „Zeitgeist“ goes back to the 18th century ( Johann Gottfried Herder ), by the way.