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From:
Chris Fahey
To:
'Sean Cooper' ,
Date:
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 11:20:39 -0500
Subject:
RE: (idm) specious analogies that are telling anyway
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quoted 5 lines love my Mark Rothko :-)> >love my Mark Rothko :-) > > me too. and part of what made rothko so breathtaking was the > quality of the > colors he used -- colors that he mixed himself.
I know this is somewhat OT, but I'd like to quote myself from another list here: One thing to keep in mind about Rothko is that all the rhetoric about his almost mystical command of the subtleties of color interaction may now be pointless - because he almost exclusively used cheap house paints whose colors have over the years either dulled or changed completely. Looking at a Rothko painting today is like listening to Chopin being played by an expert on an out-of-tune piano. For work whose whole genius is supposed to lie in precise subtlety, I find it a bit ironic that pleasure can be found in work whose whole nature has been irreparably changed into something completely different from the artist's intention. The Rothko work you read about and look at pictures of in books no longer exists. I'm not saying that his work isn't good now that it's gained some, shall we say, patina. I'm just wondering if the dialogue surrounding it needs some adjustment. - Cf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org