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[shihlun]

Gena Rowlands (1930-2024)

[dailyrothko]

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1949

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

[mioritic]

"Here are some details of the incredible angel roof on the nave at Cawston in Norfolk. The roof dates from c. 1460. On the hammerbeams of the roof stand eleven six-foot tall seraphim, still with much of their original colour on them. Some have their hands in prayer, others in adoration. On the east wall of the nave at the same level as the roof, is the shadow in red ochre of the long-lost great rood cross."

Photographs and caption via Allan Barton

[mioritic]

"Here are some details of the incredible angel roof on the nave at Cawston in Norfolk. The roof dates from c. 1460. On the hammerbeams of the roof stand eleven six-foot tall seraphim, still with much of their original colour on them. Some have their hands in prayer, others in adoration. On the east wall of the nave at the same level as the roof, is the shadow in red ochre of the long-lost great rood cross."

Photographs and caption via Allan Barton

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Svanen’ by Hilma af Klint, c. 1914.

[shihlun]

Yasujiro Ozu

- Tokyo Twilight

1957

[petitepointplace]

Matěj Baťha .

Effigy of Morana (Death). Czech Republic.

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

i lived my truth and was accused of doing Grey Gardens homage

[pinkbookshelf]

[mosertone]

Tornado, 1938 by US outsider artist Marian Spore Bush, self-taught painter who believed she communicated with dead artists

[zegalba]

Björk: Vespertine (2001)

[shihlun]

Vojtěch Jasný

- The Cassandra Cat

1963

[weepingwidar]

Minako Ota (Japanese, 1965) - Blue Crab (2020)

[rawforms]

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[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on paper, 74-1/8 x 48-1/8 in. (188.3 x 122.3 cm)

© Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko_ARS

I took this yesterday at the works on paper show at the NGA. This is a popular painting in the usual form on this blog and here we see it look much darker than we are used to. Some of these bright scans we have had forever I am finding are a bit different than reality, but then you have to take into account preferences of the format these are being displayed in. Catalog scans often go for punchy bright looks that dazzle immediately.

More and more, galleries are now using lower light (such as this) to display Rothko works in the manner he might have intended, which would be the kind of lighting he used when painting them. Lighter scans are not exactly fiction as Rothkos (as i have been over on this blog many times) are extremely sensitive to light, both bright and dark and warm and cool. This means that when you bring the lighting up to a lot of museum's standards, you'd get a lighter look to the photo.

This kind of lighting is good for a lot of types of painting but, for me, when you start seeing these works in lower light, Rothko's original intentions make sense.

[newguineatribalart]

Black Water River Mask Papua New Guinea

[weepingwidar]

Rae Klein (American, 1995) - Holding and Beholding (2021)