>Mark Weiss wrote:
>>
>> Leaving aside the question of whether the differences you see are are
>> socially or physically determined, where would you put Rothko?
>>
>> Mark
>
>Hi Mark
>
>I did say "The better artists are the ones who go
>beyond this difference"
>
>I'm a particular fan of rothko. I found it interesting that
>he went more and more minimal over time; reducing form to
>washes of colour and then finally reducing the colour to
>greys. It seems to me that he suicided at that point cos
>there was no where else for him to go conceptually. Again an
>over simplification. Rothko's are very beautiful canvases.
>
Josephine
when I saw the great Rothko retrospective at the Tate some years ago there
were some amazing bright late watercolours, blues that sang.
but hte direction he took was intriguing, as at the same tiem the canvases
seemed to become more somehow, & certainly those big ones in the Tate
permanent collection are among my great meditation sites...
Doug
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