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5 of 10 oh, now this young man...
Mark Rothko American, born Russia ( now Latvia). 1903 - 1970
No. 16 (Red, Brown, and Black) 1958
Oil on canvas
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, 1959
In 1943, Rothko, with his friend the painter Adolph Gottlieb, wrote several philosophical statements that would continue to guide his painting for years to come: “We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.” The scale and surface of this painting reflect these ideas. Rothko abandoned traditional Renaissance three-point perspective, which conceives of the canvas as a window onto another world. Multiple glazes of dark pigments of varying opacity result in a picture surface that seems flat yet quivers and vibrates, offering a sense of atmospheric depth. Rothko hoped that these compositional strategies would invite visual and emotional contemplation, creating the conditions for silence and reflection.
From the Placard: MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Floral Stills
Living in the city could sometimes get a little muted, no ? Surfaces are smoothed & polished; vehicles cruise through the milleu, A to B and back, with a lot of intimate contact being made only when these crash into each other.
We're domesticated in the city, a tad out of touch.
So where do you go to escape the 'package' ? Somewhere you can feel the sand under your feet, purer air in your lungs - where nature's smile is heartier.
My recent exploration of floral still life is a reaquaintace with that smile, an ongoing conversation.