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Huile sur toile, 230 x 145 cm, 1950, Moma, New York.
Entre 1949 et 1950, Rothko simplifie les compositions de ses premières peintures d'inspiration surréaliste pour arriver à ce qui deviendra sa signature. Ici, il divise la toile horizontalement en trois plans dominants qui se fondent doucement les uns dans les autres. Les grands passages de couleurs chaudes et froides de l'œuvre créent un champ subtilement pulsé. Rothko souhaitait que ses peintures éveillent les spectateurs à l’émotion humaine : "Il n’existe pas de bonne peinture sur rien", affirmait-il. Il souhaitait également que le spectateur regarde ses peintures de près pour s'envelopper dans leurs compositions et s'immerger dans les émotions qu'elles expriment (cf. Moma).
Mark Rothko , born Marcus Rothkowitz (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Latvian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted the classification as an "abstract painter".
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I think that, for this, I have to thank also my Flickr-mate Matt and his abstract set.
I suggest to look at my stream on Fluidr .
"But I had started tentatively towards the west and had felt a vague foreboding I could not explain to myself." AdSE
PattyCakeMelting suggested that some of my Collected Horizons shots reminded her of Rothko paintings.... today I was at MOMA and did some experimenting with the real thing.....
“I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture.”
- Mark Rothko
Rolleiflex 2.8E + Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm F/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100 / Tetenal rapid dev kit
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The Phillips Collection was one of the best art museums I've visited. They have a great variety of pieces and the size of the museum is perfect. Plus, they had a really well-put-together exhibit of Georgia O'Keeffe that made me appreciate her work more.
An aside - this is pretty much the perfect photo to show off the capabilities of the Canon 10-22mm. No distortion corrections were done to this image. Shot at 10mm (16mm equivalent), it only shows a very slight barrel distortion, and lines are straight to the edges of the frame.
After looking at some Mark Rothko images in a book I was inspired to take a picture of a Swiss orange wall and then play with Photoshop....