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Came across this, and my jaw dropped. This artist has it.

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"When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them."

-Address at Pratt, 1958

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on wove paper mounted on linen

Photo by Eric Keune from the NGA show submitted to me on instagram where he is @erkitekt

52 3/4 × 41 in. (134 × 104.1 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number 2028.69

Collection Jon and Kim Shirley.

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko Artists Rights Society, New York

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When people look at abstract art and go "uh I could make that"

Fuck, I wish you would!

I wish you would let this inspire you. I wish that seeing a piece of abstract art would move you to self expression.

I wish you would go to the craft store, buy a cheap canvas and some cheap paint and let yourself play with color and form just to see if you can.

I wish that there were more amateur painters, trying their hand at geometric abstraction and color field painting. That would be so fucking cool.

"I could make that" should be a joyous revelation, not a snarky dismissal.

You could make that? Holy shit. please. Please make that.

Jack Bush

Kenneth Noland

Piet Mondrain

Pat Lipsky

Joan Mitchell

Helen Frankenthaler

Kikuo Saito

Marilyn Kirsch

Mark Rothko

Adolph Gottlieb

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Another digital superimposition of the same root photos

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Superimposed photos

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"Loving you is as easy as hating the police"

Seen in Maastricht, Netherlands

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And its near relative 'spiritual materialism'.

"Fuck Rainbow Capitalism"

Seen in Cologne, Germany following the 2023 corporate pride parade.

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Cooper Square and St Marks Place at Bowery, June, 2023. All shots 1/5 - 1/4 sec. #1, 9, and 10 with camera movement.

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There'll be surplus babies named Charlie & Liz

Condom machines off for the royal period of mourning💔💔💔

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