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The most beautiful museum room

"The Rothko murals at Tate Modern are lovely in their oppression, erotic in their cruelty. These are paintings that seem to exist on the skin inside an eyelid. They are what you imagine might be the last lights, the final flickers of colour that register in a mind closing down. Or at the end of the world."

 

(quote of Jonathan Jones' essay "Feeding Fury", published in The Guardian, Saturday 7 December 2002)

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