#ROTHKO

[jamesusilljournal]

Untitled (Black on Grey), Mark Rothko, 1970

[dailyrothko]

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Orange and Yellow), 1969

numbered on the reverse '2105.69'

acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

71 5/8 x 38½in. (182 x 97.8cm.)

📸 @selcanatilgann on instagram, kindly donated

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / ARS

I'm offering this today because it's so different from our catalog scan. There's also a Christie's scan hung on the wall and it's still a good deal lighter than this one. It's fascinating what photography and light does with our favorite artist, and like many of his works, this painting becomes much more intense in low light which brings out a lot of the activity underneath the surface. It's also the kind of light that he painted it in

[cithaerons]

Rothko wanted to paint basic human emotion. So he painted red over red over red. Behind the colour he was looking for light. In 1942 he painted The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, where Iphigenia is not a girl, but a black pine already resined in grief. Above her the amnesia of light, an umber sky, shadows spilling white, the only motion the white hands of the wind. The story of Iphigenia was never about the girl, but the men who called for the blood of a girl knowing that the winds would one day change. The forest charred, the air stilled, deranged, and the truth beneath it all is fear, was always fear, the open grave, the charcoal line, the dead growing out of the living like lichen, the pine a blood-eyed child, the pyres loose stones and living rooms. Dress it up in the white hands of the wind. Call it need. Call it necessity. Rothko wanted to paint basic human emotion so looked behind the light and found blood rushing to no end and no knowledge of end.

Ollie Cowley, Rothko / On Fear

[archiveofcanvas]

“Rothko completely escaped me. I mean, I always used to think that abstract painting might at least bring you the most lovely, vibrant colours, but you know they’ve got a room of them here, and if you want to be really depressed for the rest of the day, you’ll go into that room, but I suppose you can say that’s a quality, it’s just that I hate that dirty maroon colour he’s used in those things, and if I wanted to be depressed, I’d go in for a few hours into that Rothko room just to look at maroon, but I could go and look at a yard of maroon on that they could roll out for me and it would be just the same. I think they’re the most dreary painting there’s ever been made.” - Francis Bacon, The Southbank Show, Aired: 9th June, 1985

[glavilio]

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Untitled, Black on Gray, 1969

Mark Rothko

[cfstuff]

i feel like they don't agree much on art

[bloedgetuige]

the rothko turner combination in tate britain that blew my dick off

[the-cricket-chirps]

Mark Rothko

Red on Maroon

1959

[zegalba]

Susumu Yokota & Rothko: Distant Sounds Of Summer (2005)

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko Untitled, c. 1968 on paper © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / ARS, New York

[archiveofcanvas]

Rothko

[seravph]

colors in my head recently

yves klein / Eloise at the plaza / Matisse / rothko / cy twombly / anne magill

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Untitled Black Gray 1969

Mark Rothko

[rolloroberson]

Mark Rothko

Untitled

1949

[reneserranorodriguez08]

Nierika *N20241203

Mixed media / Canvas

120 X 80 centimeters (47 X 31 Inches)

2024