Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light

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Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light

 

By Jason Farago

Oct. 25, 2023, New York Times

 

 

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Mark Rothko's "No. 14" (1960)

 

 

 

 

 

Rothko never thought of them as peaceable. “Behind the color lies the cataclysm,” he said in 1959.

 

[P]aintings throughout are hung much lower to the floor than usual — the artist’s preference, to echo the conditions of his studio — against walls of elephant gray rather than nuclear white. It keeps the focus on the pictures and nothing else, with just passing glances to the young Marcus Rothkowitz’s flight from present-day Latvia, the influence of his Talmudic education or the impact of the Holocaust, the mixed reception of Abstract Expressionism in American and European museums, or his suicide in 1970.

 

“I’m only interested in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on,” Rothko said in 1957, denying any interest in the mechanics of abstraction or color.