#rothko

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko Untitled, 1969 Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen 52 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (134 x 101.3 cm) Collection Hara Museum Collection/Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, inv. no. 49. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

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[nobrashfestivity]

Hiroshi Sugimoto Ionian Sea I, Santa Cesarea gelatin silver print

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969 Oil on canvas

[theinternetarchive]

'subway scene,' oil on canvas, 35 x 47.25 cm; mark rothko, american, 1938.

[cithaerons]

Rothko wanted to paint basic human emotion. So he painted red over red over red. Behind the colour he was looking for light. In 1942 he painted The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, where Iphigenia is not a girl, but a black pine already resined in grief. Above her the amnesia of light, an umber sky, shadows spilling white, the only motion the white hands of the wind. The story of Iphigenia was never about the girl, but the men who called for the blood of a girl knowing that the winds would one day change. The forest charred, the air stilled, deranged, and the truth beneath it all is fear, was always fear, the open grave, the charcoal line, the dead growing out of the living like lichen, the pine a blood-eyed child, the pyres loose stones and living rooms. Dress it up in the white hands of the wind. Call it need. Call it necessity. Rothko wanted to paint basic human emotion so looked behind the light and found blood rushing to no end and no knowledge of end.

Ollie Cowley, Rothko / On Fear

[illusoryfem]

Rothko, 1964

[nattoaxo-art]

Rothkoesque Company

[archiveofcanvas]

“Rothko completely escaped me. I mean, I always used to think that abstract painting might at least bring you the most lovely, vibrant colours, but you know they’ve got a room of them here, and if you want to be really depressed for the rest of the day, you’ll go into that room, but I suppose you can say that’s a quality, it’s just that I hate that dirty maroon colour he’s used in those things, and if I wanted to be depressed, I’d go in for a few hours into that Rothko room just to look at maroon, but I could go and look at a yard of maroon on that they could roll out for me and it would be just the same. I think they’re the most dreary painting there’s ever been made.” - Francis Bacon, The Southbank Show, Aired: 9th June, 1985

[where-is-the-sam-standee]

hes in a rothko

The Sam standee is in Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red) (1949) by Mark Rothko!