TateShots Issue 16 - Rothko

[VasilisBotoulas]

watch?v=VSdxqIBfEAw  :)

[tkduane18]

everytime i read a comment about modern art being a joke and a waste of money i think of sports... how much do athletes get paid and what truly great things are they doing for the world? why is it so wrong for artists to get big paychecks? tiger is worth how many millions because he's really really really good at... uh... golf? wtf

[t7g6s8]

i agree. i personally think when one ridicules another the first person (the ridiculer) does not realize they are actually (symbolically) pointing out flaws in themselves.

[planetlennie]

way way over-intellectualized.

[tzeqin]

@planetlennie. Yeps, it's called 'marketing'.

[rodrigomartin86]

gran Rothko !! como puede jugar con el espacio y con el espectador ... impresionante

[nickbethell]

'MuSeEqUaLsLoVe', i think that that's the beauty of his work, if those awkward shapes are everywhere it makes one able to relate to the work. maybe it's not significant, art doesn't always have to be significant, but due to fantastic marketing, it has made him a significant artistic figure.

[headsnak1]

I have to say i feel very blessed to only be 10 minutes away from the Rothko Chapel here in Houston/Museum District.

[AutumnCanvas]

There is just no way I can decide whether I enjoy Rothko's work this way. I must see them in person!

[doonarxxx]

thats so true, you cant apreciate them on here or in books

[rimind1]

i saw them in feb the last day ,was huntingly beutiful.

[bakeratlas]

You must be an idiot a black canvas beutifull WTF and for that stupid frenchman trying to explain and justify, what a joke modern abstract art is and all the rich idiots and yuppies that think it is soooo cool to perpetuate the whole industry, does nobody get that what a waste of time and money the whole thing is.

[tzeqin]

@bakeratlas - I am studying to be part of this whole money-burning industry and sometimes I do agree with you too. But at least it gives more value to the world in terms of fulfillment and wonder than the even more $guzzling military industry. I'd rather an idiot who 'appreciates' art than the next trigger-happy idiot who grunts for fun.

[MuSeEqUaLsLoVe]

I don't really understand Rothko's works. They're just squares or awkward shapes - what's so significant about that? it's pretty much everywhere.

[chandru1103]

You are looking for there to be a physical "something" to bring you some idea of what the work is about i.e.symbols, iconography. These Haunt you. When you see them in person they really are raw human emotions made with paint. They are so raw, in fact, that I have a physical response to them...mainly goosebumps and chills. They really are significant in the sense that he was a master of color theory. For me, he is the pinnacle of Abstract Art.

[tzeqin]

@chandru - You are right, he is great at making us aware of basic design principles and translating them into fine art.

I've seen his stuff and got goosebumps too. But I blame the air-conditioning.

[bassmajor]

@chandru1103

well said! I remember standing in front of a rothko painting looking at it and being unable to move... His art is really beyond words. I'm always upset on people saying "huuh? I could do that, too but would you care?" It's like with the egg of columbus. There has to be one who does it... and think about when he did this... I think that hardly anyone back in the beginning of the 20th century was thinking about art like this.

[sunlogosis]

@bassmajor in 2004 i went to madrid with my teacher to buy guitars and look at all the guitar shops and makers. i wanted to go to the museums bc i had never been to a museum (bc ima bonafide trailer parker). so im in the bornemiza museo and looking at all the art. i walk past the rothko there and i thought, what?! this is art!? so i had to figure out why it is art. i walk up to it about 2 ft away and immediately i felt like i was being overwhelmed. it literally pulls you into the painting,...

[sunlogosis]

@bassmajor was rocking back and forth and had to step back. after that i finally "got it ". this is what i want art to do for me. i want it to capture me and give me that euphoric feeling of serenity or whatever it is meant to do for the veiwer. Rothkos paintings are like a glimpse of the soul to me or a religious painting. ill never forget that exact feeling, it was great. when i look at art or make art, that feeling is what i go for. if i dont get it i scrap the art im doing. i love rothko.

[jeffreycollins]

Rothko would have been extremely pissed off at the Tate if he knew that they were hanging his paintings so high off the ground. He always wanted his paintings to be seen at a lower more human level as opposed to looking at a work of art like some kind of altar.

[artrca1000]

And he would have said the light is too bright and they are too far apart.

[jpapare]

@jeffreycollins You are so right about this show having been hung too high. They are uncomfortably high, even higher from the floor than one would normally hang work this size. It kind of rings of a curator becoming more important than the works of art.

[zebredpooding]

gloomy

[ArtGalleryNSW]

beautifully produced esp. the gorgeously fluid tracking shots and ghostly time-lapse photography. also wonderfully informative about Rothko and the exhibition. thx.

[fromtomevans]

please send me a ticket to get here. I'll pay you back with expansive color fields on rabbit skin glue stretched as tight as rays of light that wrap around time. 'tis a curse to be driven to paint...such a filthy and painful talent?