Mark-Rothko. Number 3 or Number 13. 1949
Here is a link to the Smarthistory video: www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/abstract-exp-nysc...
In the video, commentator Steven Zucker said that "these are almost clouds of forms that exist in some sort of space of their own construction." What would it be like to exist only within the space of your own construction, the space of your own mind? Rothko himself said that if people really understood his paintings, they would weep when viewing them. This sounds like he's saying that we don't really, deeply, feel what his paintings are about, doesn't it? After all, imagine that you'd just seen this painting in person. Do you think it would have moved you to tears? Are Rothko's paintings about a persevering in spite of isolation, the inability to be fully understand by another person? Is that what he supposed to be moving about his paintings?
See : www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/abstract-exp-nysc...
Mark-Rothko. Number 3 or Number 13. 1949
Here is a link to the Smarthistory video: www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/abstract-exp-nysc...
In the video, commentator Steven Zucker said that "these are almost clouds of forms that exist in some sort of space of their own construction." What would it be like to exist only within the space of your own construction, the space of your own mind? Rothko himself said that if people really understood his paintings, they would weep when viewing them. This sounds like he's saying that we don't really, deeply, feel what his paintings are about, doesn't it? After all, imagine that you'd just seen this painting in person. Do you think it would have moved you to tears? Are Rothko's paintings about a persevering in spite of isolation, the inability to be fully understand by another person? Is that what he supposed to be moving about his paintings?
See : www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/abstract-exp-nysc...