tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post7733476935368043491..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Mark Rothko: from expressionism to abstractionHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-7974231421842806632016-12-13T09:08:27.238+11:002016-12-13T09:08:27.238+11:00Let me create a link to Art & Artists, a blog ...Let me create a link to Art & Artists, a blog that reproduced many Rothko paintings: http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2016/12/mark-rothko-part-1.html<br /><br />I normally love WPA murals because they were so Deco and proud, celebrating workers or other vital people who contributed to the community. But Rothko's 1937 Subway mural looked isolated and depressed.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-74766997102062902212015-06-10T01:03:35.175+10:002015-06-10T01:03:35.175+10:00Thank you.
Rothko really did begin his career exp...Thank you.<br /><br />Rothko really did begin his career exploring a wide range of modernist art. So it was just as well the then-young artist was surrounded by like minded risk takers, artists who were themselves on the fringe. Being alone in a new country, with new art forms, would have been horrible. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-44100371171631529182015-06-10T00:38:39.409+10:002015-06-10T00:38:39.409+10:00Matt Nesvisky wrote: Cohen-Solal would have been o...Matt Nesvisky wrote: Cohen-Solal would have been on firmer ground exploring the group involved in the American Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s, when so many artists and critics and gallery owners promoted a radically intellectual non-pictorial art. Think of Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg.<br /><br />Jerusalem Report, 15th June 2015The Jerusalem Reporthttp://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Books-Irascible-Rothko-404160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-83798900452192590462015-04-26T11:42:23.877+10:002015-04-26T11:42:23.877+10:00Joe
How far back did Rothko's depression go b...Joe<br /><br />How far back did Rothko's depression go back in his life? What a sad story!<br /><br />He was married to the decorative artist Edith Sachar from 1936-43. He was rejected by the army on health grounds and apparently he was too humiliated to go home. Strange grounds for divorce, but who knows what the truth was. <br /><br />Rothko was also diagnosed with a heart condition in 1968 and soon suicided. He was survived by his second wife, Mary Beistle, but she too soon died and their two very young children were raised by relatives.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-71473865813381798712015-04-26T11:25:15.655+10:002015-04-26T11:25:15.655+10:00Parnassus
Annie Cohen-Solal's book was 300 pa...Parnassus<br /><br />Annie Cohen-Solal's book was 300 pages.. a big read in my rapidly advancing middle age :) <br /><br />The interesting thing for me was changing my research question half way through. I started asking why did an artist move from popular expressionist works to unknown and risky abstractionist works. Then I became more interested in how an individual artist fulfilled (or not) the migrant dream.<br /><br />Re the Bunny Mellon estate, I too will need to learn more. Many thanks.<br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-27287256762226353832015-04-26T10:59:34.665+10:002015-04-26T10:59:34.665+10:00In understanding why a famous artist would suicide...In understanding why a famous artist would suicide, we might have to look to his unsettled personal life rather than his art. What happened to the first wife. Were the children loving.Joenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-37337417638601678362015-04-26T00:58:17.749+10:002015-04-26T00:58:17.749+10:00Hello Hels, I looked at that article, and since ...Hello Hels, I looked at that article, and since it was in a general publication, not a specialty site, I wouldn't really consider the low quality of the comments. After all, there were a number that basically said "modern art is stupid", so one has to consider the source. That said, it is shocking how in an age when diversity is celebrated, a grim antisemitic tone so constantly comes up.<br /><br />About the paintings, a number of important and beautiful Rothkos were sold last year (for apparently huge prices) with the breakup of the Bunny Mellon estate; I tried to check quickly on the distribution, but the sales history seems rather complicated.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.com