![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Seven Days, Seven Covers 2022: Day 5
Mar. 9th, 2022 08:54 am
Mar. 9th, 2022
Book Bingo 2022: March (#2)
Mar. 9th, 2022 02:34 pmNormally I wouldn't post 2 book bingo posts in a month, especially for just one square/addition but I am planning to return this VERY overdue book today, and I wanted to record my thoughts while they were still fresh.
Non-fiction: Mark Rothko From the Inside Out by Christopher Rothko. [book] This is a study of abstract painter Mark Rothko (known for painting rectangles of colour floating on top of each other) by his son. It's a very detailed, very intellectual take on Rothko's art. A lot of it seems to be de-bunking ideas that surround Rothko's art. It definitely made me more of a Rothko fan than I was. Not an easy read. Rothko's son is a psychotherapist and he talks a lot about the viewer's reaction to Rothko's art. There is a Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas that would like to visit one day.
Some interesting bits:
The author says virtually no receipts for paint survive but apparently there are countless receipts for turpentine, which Rothko used to dilute paint and make a kind of stain.
Thus Rothko reduced the immediacy of his colors as a way of clarifying that he was not a colorist, that even his most brilliant hues were simply a means to an end. And that end was not about mood; it was not about self-expression; it was about engaging fully with the essences of human existence, be they ecstasy or doom.
[talking about the murals in the Rothko Chapel] It is an imperative disguised as a caress.
After stating that people fear what they do not understand, in reference to Rothko's art. (although I have noticed a dearth of carnivorous canvases roaming the city in recent years.)
My father not only acknowledged but espoused the need for his paintings to be seen by the solitary observer. He spoke of having small chapels dotted throughout the country where the long traveler could stop and encounter of this paintings.
( Full list )
Non-fiction: Mark Rothko From the Inside Out by Christopher Rothko. [book] This is a study of abstract painter Mark Rothko (known for painting rectangles of colour floating on top of each other) by his son. It's a very detailed, very intellectual take on Rothko's art. A lot of it seems to be de-bunking ideas that surround Rothko's art. It definitely made me more of a Rothko fan than I was. Not an easy read. Rothko's son is a psychotherapist and he talks a lot about the viewer's reaction to Rothko's art. There is a Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas that would like to visit one day.
Some interesting bits:
The author says virtually no receipts for paint survive but apparently there are countless receipts for turpentine, which Rothko used to dilute paint and make a kind of stain.
Thus Rothko reduced the immediacy of his colors as a way of clarifying that he was not a colorist, that even his most brilliant hues were simply a means to an end. And that end was not about mood; it was not about self-expression; it was about engaging fully with the essences of human existence, be they ecstasy or doom.
[talking about the murals in the Rothko Chapel] It is an imperative disguised as a caress.
After stating that people fear what they do not understand, in reference to Rothko's art. (although I have noticed a dearth of carnivorous canvases roaming the city in recent years.)
My father not only acknowledged but espoused the need for his paintings to be seen by the solitary observer. He spoke of having small chapels dotted throughout the country where the long traveler could stop and encounter of this paintings.
( Full list )