#rothko

It's time again for a #WednesdayWalk, the tag created by @tattoodjay to encourage us to try and get out once a week for a short walk, which can be from your office, home or anywhere really, and to walk

Abstract photo. July, 2019. Abstract photography appeals to me. Conceptually, I like the contradiction between the idea of a photograph, which is supposed to represent concrete reality, and turning it

Could be a Rothko's painting!

Mountian Range No.2

Mountain ridge

In the late 1950's, Rothko was commissioned to paint a series for the four seasons restaurant. Rothko was influenced by Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence, with its blind windows. Rothko commented

Parallel Lines No.2

Parallel Lines

Calm Above The Storm No.2

Calm Above The Storm

Belgium

Heat

Umber

Field in Blue

My last post was about Mark Rothko and his ideas about the purpose of modern art. Here’s his son, Christopher on his father’s legacy. Art, he says, can be a gift that allows us to think more deeply about

“I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on,” Rothko said in 1957. “The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when

Horizon, No.8

Horizon, No.7

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