What Mark Rothko thinks about modern art & people

[repelghosts]

Dee I just received the letter from the Rothko authentication board that the ink drawing is right...if you want it email me as i am buying a small Basquiat.G

[LDGuy]

Unfortunately, Rothko was right, I think, in these words, and much more so today than then, arguably. I would recommend a film by the BBC's Ben Lewis--called The Great Contemporary Art Bubble--to see how contemporary art is linked to (and has been corrupted by) big money. Robert Hughes recent film is also good.

BBC docs these days can be a bit Hollywoody in style, but Hughes' and Lewis' facts are on the money. (Literally.)

[chandru1103]

ultimately art is JUST art. Rothko was kind of a bastard, but he sure knew how to paint.

[tvpaker2008]

@chandru1103 "JUST" seems not to be an appropriate word describing his art. He wished to make a point on sth he felt really important – silence. But how to embed “silence” so that it was visible? Ans: shock. You are left speechless then. That’s why he was a bastard…

[chandru1103]

@tvpaker2008 NO NO NO I love his work...he's the only artist that handles the concept of emotion successfully in my opinion. I'm just saying he was a bullheaded and stubborn advocate of elitism. He also did not accept any other approach to painting and art as legitimate....making him a bastard.

[tvpaker2008]

@chandru1103 then being a bastard is not bad at all :)

[chandru1103]

@tvpaker2008 an open minded bastard yes...and dogmatic bastard not so much. I like the work, not the man. Whihc I am certain he'd be okay with.

[000000000789]

reality of painter, it's enough to go, or to go back, to the gift of silence

[eecortese]

This is part of Simon Schama's excellent eight part BBC documentary "Power of Art - Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso, Rothko"

The actor portraying Rothko is Allan Corduner.

[tvpaker2008]

Yes, but this are real words of Mark Rothko

[kcollinsart]

This is a dramatization, correct? That isn't actually Mark Rothko?