Category Archives: Rothko
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Mark Rothko‘s paintings – even the most exact, the black-form paintings – are punctuated by things that look like accidents. Parts of an apparently even-coloured area will be more reflective than others, but you can only see this when the … Continue reading
Nothing more than feelings
Tom Lubbock says that Rothko’s paintings are like power ballads: Rothko made a real discovery when he found that, by using a very restricted language, a few bars and panes and rectangular frames of strong colour, blurry-edged and set in … Continue reading
Filed under art, contemplation, Rothko
Black, Lynch and Rothko
When I was at primary school a teacher told my class that there was no such thing as black paint or ink or dye: anything that was called black would, if you looked hard at it, turn out to be … Continue reading
Filed under art, contemplation, film, Lynch, my past, Rothko, television
