Mark Rothko

[Novamute1]

As far removed as Radiohead is from the Beatles - so was Rothko from conventional forms of expression (painting). Visual form of pure emotion.

Ps. Because we all appreciate to different degrees (as spectators) an artistic piece becomes selective, there's no right or wrong. Just emotional entitlement an opinion :-)

[n000Face]

sweet transitions

[harrymuse]

Mark Rothko + Radiohead = Perfection.

[GrapeJuiceFruit]

this song and mark rothko go so well together its epic

[11xzxzxz]

It's OK to criticize .. not everyone is going to get Mark. I do wish those who criticize would at least look at Wikipedia and see what Rothko was trying to say. There is meaning to Mark's bands of colors .. if you read about it , it could help you understand. Maybe you will not like him but just see that he is not one to be easily dismissed.

[11xzxzxz]

@vuduchyld78 That's OK to think that Rothko was a creepy capitalizing conniver. I think we all have an abundance of conflicting feelings and urges when we do anything for fun or profit . Mark, or I called him Marc, would not want your comment removed either as he was for expansion of ideas not suppression of anything.

[vuduchyld78]

@11xzxzxz Hahaha! Creepy capitalizing conniver...I like you man! I respect this reply loads. Touche.

[11xzxzxz]

@vuduchyld78 Sure anytime but not in a museum. We must be obedient silent observers in a museum. No talking.

[smartfkr]

so can someone who backs this dude up so much just give me the break down on whats great about his work? i still can't find it out, i respect any artist, not so much respect for critics tho, there's a difference between an artist and his audience. but this stuff does catch my attention, i catch myself just fascinated by painting a canvas just for the brushing relaxation, its sophistication that people must be so interested in these days...

[vuduchyld78]

@smartfkr I have a painting that my kindergarten neighbor painted in class yesterday.  He was relaxing to every brushstroke as he painted it. Tell you what...I like you- I will sell it to you for $350,000 flat. Tomorrow this offer might go up, Act now.

[OneWholeHappySoul]

Don't post your Vid here if you do not like it (Nasty Comments)...you seem to be very talented and You Tube is like a Six Pack on Steroids.

[Consciousish]

@Ozzrya91 Yep.

[Alexoflondon]

I kind of like Rothko. But I also feel that I (or anyone else) probably wouldn`t recognize his work versus a regular painter-and-decorator with a roller. Rothko uses the viewer to complete the `picture` and evoke emotion; he clarified the fact that outside of explicit images we look into ourselves for meaning on canvas. How many of us - honestly - could spot the `fake`?

[GrapeJuiceFruit]

@Alexoflondon the work doesnt use the viewer to complete it, its fully autonomous. the viewer experiences the deep relationship that the artist had with the painting when he looks at it, if a regular painter is able to express himself as well as rothko he still wouldnt be rothko coz rothko was the first to do it.

[inespc2004]

Thank you for introducing me Rothko's art! I know nothing about abstract art but I love it. I like the one at 2:02. It makes me feel energy and serenity at the same time. I'd like to fly into the deep green while looking at the red below. I feel a sweet and spicy flavour when I look at this painting... well, not in my tongue of course, but in my mind... it´s a bit weird...

[MicahBuzan]

love this artist and excellent choice of music. kid a album artwork and expecially the cover from amnesiac is heavily mark rothko inspired (in the best sense of the word.)

[roviscop]

la non sarà che "latempesta67"...

è in realtà latempyberlinese 2007?????

firmato ROVIgoSCOPpito

[rosmia2]

Anyone can you that you need to see his work in the flesh. Reproductions whether in books, slides or on youtube.com just don't cut it. Go to a museum and see the stuff for yourself.

[hossrex]

@rosmia2

Yes! Let the wondrous experience of being inside a famous art museum influence your opinion of his art!

Now THAT'S objectivity.

[ykhappy]

wonderful tune!

amazing video!

[markina60]

Uno de mis grandes heroes...Mark Rothko...Buena musica, mejores imagenes!!!

[kanelakoker]

even my little brother can do it better O_o

[rosmia2]

@kanelakoker Actually your little brother can't.

[vestman95]

I don't remember the title, but I love the Blue piece at 2:25

[diadory]

i really really love it! ist kind depressing but tellsme so much thing, i feel so many ways when i see his paints ist just amazing

[OnTheLimits]

@diadory yeah me too. I see red and blue and green. That's all. People like you drive me wild. Know how many people are struggling around the Globe with only 1$ per day? Bitch.

[legendkilla9x9]

my name is mark rothka thats kinda creepy

[Caligula138]

Hes not my favorite artist

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

KID A. KID A. KID A. KID A.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Rothko's Art makes me Depressed.

[glossy104]

Nay, it's not art & music, it's art lost in philosophy

[opps2008]

This is an amazing work,very inspiring ,love it..

[asdfkie]

its really sad how art has fallen from its heights. it's like someone getting younger and less developed.

[MercuryLove46]

my favorite artist..

[LarsYenin]

he looks like my uncle louie.

[sucramnormark]

1:09 is actually a road sign in sweden. Is the road sign genious? No.

[jezzeronthecoast]

you ask me how he is more then just nice colours well look at his art and get an education. If you do that you will know!

Don't waste my time till you are educated enough to know S**t from your toe.

[sucramnormark]

@jezzeronthecoast

You see, that's what's so sucky about it. If it's something only painters can see, it's pointless. Just like yngwie malmsteen. It's show-off, "oh, look at the special paint he uses" - doesnt matter, it's still pretentious and overrated, but nobody dares to disagree for fear of being called stupid.

Appearantly you feel threatened by what I'm typing. Get a mind of your own dude- Just because you follow the critics doesnt make you less a sheep.

[jezzeronthecoast]

@sucramnormark can i have that in english please what in hell is the potentious rantings your carrying on about.

Ok, you disagree with mel. for god sake come up with a coherent argument

[vuduchyld78]

@sucramnormark WELL SAID!

[sucramnormark]

Okay. What is this? ANYONE could paint this. Just because some old respected art reviewer said GENIOUS about this, nobody dares disagreeing by fear of being called stupid. This is ridicolous. I DONT GET IT.

[gattij1]

your 2 year old niece pooposterous does not speak four languages. Your four year old niece can't afford a medium that rothko works on. your four year old niece doesn't even have sufficient color to do what rothko does.

[oxcam1234]

For people who critize Rothko's paintings without knowing anything about art: who was the first painter who began painting like this? Mark Rothko. This paintings have a more profound meaning. Please, visit a museum and then comment.

[pixiewilson42]

Totally floats my boat,have spent many a happy hr or so sitting on a bench in front of one of Rothko's works here at L'pool's great Walker Art Gallery or Tate L'pool..sadly alot of people want what I call "chocolate bx art" as I call it...not me at all

[andrie1001]

Rothko was a genius

[sucramnormark]

How is it genious to add three similiar colours with each other? Anybody could do it.

[jezzeronthecoast]

There is so much more to Rothko then nice colours and simertry. Yes he does do boxes with pritty colours but this is a vast simplification of the brillerance of his art! (do excuse my path besetic spelling, which is really beside the point).

Rothko is more then nice colours and shapes.

[sucramnormark]

Pleace specify what more he is.

[morbentfel]

the success of these "paintings" is a spit in the face of the likes of davinci, monet, etc

[SexiLexiXXX]

@morbentfel then you do not truly understand art

[ShaneyElderberry]

there was no such artist called Da Vinci (from vinci).  His name was Leonardo.

Rothko was one of the few deep thinkers of the 50s and 60s of painting. He felt that these paintings revealed more to us about humans then others did. If we look at those artists: Monet, Carravaggio, and other masters, we also realize that they were pretty experimental and rejected at times.

And also, works by the old masters are priceless (rarely bought), so no it's not a spit in the face like you think.

[vuduchyld78]

@ShaneyElderberry Um- Funny thing...They didn't call it the "Leonardo Code"! Duuuuuuuuh!

[P00P0STER0US]

When it comes to blurry colored rectangles, this guy had it DOWN. I've never seen blurry colored rectangles like his. Of all the blurry colored rectangles I've seen, his were by far the most mature and engaging. Yes Mark Rothko, you were a MASTER of the blurry colored rectangle. Even my 2 year old niece just paints in blurry colored circles. She's a hack.

[ioapapa]

art and in perticular painting is a an expression u must not laugh with!!! every artist has his own way of expression and we are trying to follow the way of modern life.. I am an artist and i know the feeling!

[mellowtribe]

If he would of painted a trapizoid with a circle at its center it would of possibly been his magnum opus! Abstratc art rules in that its all inclusive no matter how much one may suck as a painter there is always an adusience that will admire it ...especially if the artist is dead.

[bigbirdddd]

Dude those aren't squares, they're rectangles. They're worth millions more than squares. If they were squares I'd see your point, but these are rectangles. I mean come on, they're so much longer than squares.

(I was just wondering.......Is there a picture in picture thing going with these? Like where's Waldo or magic eye or something? There are starving people in the world right now that could use $78,000,000, for something besides rectangles.) Rambling, sorry.

[vuduchyld78]

You are right bigbirdddd...After further review I see now that most of these are, in fact, more rectangular in shape. Imagine how the artworld would have been affected had this son of a bitch graduated up a few steps to actual circles? I mean could you f-cking imagine? These paintings would be so amazing that you probably could not actually look directly at them- for their beauty would burn a whole through the retinas of all who viewed them. I'm gonna dig this bastard up and by him a drink...

[P00P0STER0US]

I'm spitting with laughter here..."could not actually look directly at them..."

[kornlord11]

I have to agree, when i see the red square it makes me MAD!, when i see the blue square it makes me Sad, I was raped as a child, and burned with cigarettes, but these squares make the pain go away...Rothko, im not gay, but i might be in love with you... all that sweat glistening softly on your butt crack... mmmmmmmm.....these squares are in my heart mind and soul-forever, god is a square.

[vuduchyld78]

OMG!!! This shit is AMAZING!!! The one with the squares is my favorite..ya know- the colored squares. Oh, and what about the one with the squares...Effin crazy! Did I mention the squares...and the colors? DaVinci ain't got shit on these freakin' squares I'm tellin" ya!!! WACK WACK WACK WACK WACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JennaVain89]

Look at 3:07 . Simple? There's nothing? Just look with atention and you will see everything! That's the reason it's amazing.

[phuturephunk01]

You guys are hilarious.

You search for Rothko, read that someone actually had a profound experience from his work, then give the thumbs down.

What the fuck are you doing here?

Youtube really has become a noticeboard for the mentally ill to vent their spleens....

Just say what you feel about the subject/s in the vid, leave out the verbal masturbation and insults,. Anyone 'telling' you what you are 'supposed' to feel or think about a piece of art really doesn't understand art at all...

[scalemodellingtips]

@phuturephunk01 your right

[hossrex]

Mark Rothko... the guy who produced million dollar paintings in the style of beginners water color.

[AtheistAnarchoRudi]

@phuturephunk01 rothko started emo fuck all the haters

[11xzxzxz]

For all of you who don't understand abstract expressionism and Rothko in particular - his painting means "nothing at all" or "all for nothing"

[hjlk555]

i think radiohead can get old since it is so overdone, but this was a perfect song for this. You did a great job putting this together. Very heavy.

[rfromberg]

see "rothko generator"

[mackdan7]

I've taken shits more profound and meaningful than this.

[phuturephunk01]

....and then regurgitated them here....thanks for that

[StellinaLinus]

great rothko...great song...thanks

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

I want to drown in a pool of my own blood and feces...

[Valelacerte]

Cool. Make sure you film it and give it title like "Resolving X: Haberdashery?". I admire your vision.

[AnonymousWhitePerson]

Rothko's painting makes me want to kill myself. It is that good!

[TheBlackRacist]

Great art?? My god... Life is really overrated: Wheres dalí? Where is Van Gogh? That's art, not this...

Radiohead is amazing, bad idea to put it on a colection of rubers of pencils...

[chandru1103]

You have no idea what it is you're looking at. These are emotions translated onto canvas, without pretention or overly dignified subjects. It is simple beauty that is all. Look at one in person, you will get goosebumps. Now I love dali as much as the next guy, but there has been art since Van gogh. Study some Modern art history and then you'd be able to relate to Rothko's work.

[phuturephunk01]

Great spelling, you degenerate.

Dali was simply on drugs, but I respect his stereo pairs.

Van Gogh was a muppet> Freak out/Ear - nuff said

Witness Rothko in person, then eat humble pie.....

[ForeverIsis]

Is great your video complimenti

Isis

[tsuicbd18]

Rothko and Radiohead... Genius

[phuturephunk01]

Just checked out some Meireles.

What a dribbler. I mean really, too many drugs and as he says himself "I'm an artist....supposedly" lol

[phuturephunk01]

You can't deny Rothko. I went to an exhibition of his at the Tate Modern in the early nineties. It was the most powerful experience from art that I've ever encountered. the room felt charged with a primal emotional quality and certain pieces made me really upset and I had to go out for air.. Valelacarte, get a clue. Stop trying to promote your nationalist bullshit here. I agree with Tom, if you were unimpressed... you weren't looking.

[Valelacerte]

Nationalist? What on earth are you prattling on about? Try making a distinction between your own projected dysfunctions and the art itself.

[phuturephunk01]

...yawn....

At least you like Tron, you can't be a complete moron....I guess.

Just a bit of an Art Nazi....

[Valelacerte]

As it happens, I was just slipping on my SS Oberführer uniform for a quick goose-step around the yard.

[vratimov]

Thank you for this video.I liked it:)

[fromtomevans]

we should care about your being "thoroughly unimpressed" moron? pfft you and Meireles are both a waste of time.

loao

[Valelacerte]

Rothko's display at Tate Modern was over hyped and wasted too much space. I was thoroughly unimpressed with numerous canvases comprising of shades of red rectangles on a red background, or grey horizons on a black skies; appeals to my Holocaust sympathies with wails of "It's Jewish blood!" only angered me further. I heard so much pretentious shit uttered in those rooms!

Thank God Cildo Meireles provided some serious and innovative installations to save me from a wasted visit.

[fromtomevans]

syou're a leaking bag of wind some day you'll see it.. or perhaps you won't lol.

I'm inclined to associate you with the latter.

try painting a red on maroon just try, any medium, then get back to us angered farmboy.

[Valelacerte]

Oh dear, apparently literacy has declined in the towns. Why don't you try another flavour and stick your sycophantic tongue up another artist's arse?

[chandru1103]

I am sorry you only got to see the Seagram's murals, which are not my favorites, but please tell me you haven't ruled out Rothko all together. I mean, the crap "art snobs" spew about his style is ridiculous, little do they know how primal his ideas were. And how little explanation they truly need.

[Valelacerte]

No, chandru1103, I haven't ruled out the man himself; this isn't an attack on the man or his national identity (as per phuturephunk01's suggestions of anti-semitism), I just didn't think the work I saw deserved the space and adulation it was getting, and the elaborate, multi-layered pretention of the worshippers just wound me up. I felt that Cildo Meireles, regardless of whether he is or considers himself an artist or a "dribbler", produced a more interesting and immersive range of work.

[lizzie81188]

I think it's cool how primal art can be. Really, I think you have a point. As an artist I too don't really think there needs to be much of an explanation to his art. You can see there how simple it is. Why complicate it with a complicated explanation? Just sit back and enjoy the serene colors palettes and let your mind wander, I guess...you know?

[sexualgorgeous]

in wiki's rothko's words: "only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions . . . The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationship, then you miss the point."

[JollyGraham]

Great art, Great Music, Great Video!

[jesscolt11]

Who made this video?

[Kurturmis]

I agree having an arts education doesn't matter, but all art speaks for itself in regards to how talented or skilled an artist is.

[Kurturmis]

lol this shit is not art!! next video ....

[placeinhere]

Based on YOUR definition of art, which I suspect is uneducated and shallow.

[Kurturmis]

...well I do have an art education and I am an artist, it a shame that "subjectivity" lets people create whatever crap they want and call it art. These painting may look stylish and "cool" hanging in a modern home, but objectivity speaking they are BAD PAINTINGS, done by an unskilled and untalented artist

[bassmajor]

just because you´re educated in arts you can´t just say that someone is untalented because there´s no real definition of talent. i think the things he said (look up wikipedia or wikiqoute) speak for their own. his paintings should start living and unfold their personality in the viewer's mind... for example "untitled 1949"... this painting just paralyzed me standing in front of it... it felt like it was screaming at me

[TheBlackRacist]

untitled 1949? The pencil's rubber? Well, yeah, it paralyse me too. I just couldn't belive that 'shit' was on a museum...

[OnTheLimits]

@TheBlackRacist yeah, I agree. Cant believe that shit was hold in an art gallery. Worst thing is that rich bastards pay millions for those paintings.

[4imagesmore]

What a pity..this could have been really good.

Spoilt by gimmicky dissolves which just distract and detract from the images.

What was that you tried to say!!!

Listen to the man.

[emenius1sleepus]

My favorite band and one of my favorite artists. Great compilation

[ludachris475]

A motley rhapsody.

Very histrionic.

[ludachris475]

Thom Yorke admired Mark Rothko.

Everytime I pause to think about his artwork, I hear this song by Radiohead in my head.

His artwork looks like the artwork for Radiohead albums.

[letufi]

I love Rothko-

Thanks for sharing.

I would preffer to see the works without effects-

[Alessandro1985]

When you sit up close to rothko's in real life and stare at them sometimes the paint starts moving. You have to be there to believe it. It is the weirdest experience you can have without drugs. I thought I was hallucinating. But seriously I went back and it happens everytime. It's like the paint starts breathing. I wish I understood the science behind that!

[polymath7]

Alessandro, though I am, at the moment, so tired I've scarcely strength enough to hit the keys, I can't go to bed without replying to your comment and echoing your sentiment; I know EXACTLY what you mean.

[kanguro82]

Rothko tu has hecho nacer los sueños.

[nuckles2008]

Mark Rothko was a powerful and tragic figure in American art. He was a master. Either you get that or you don't.

[artcritic1]

youTube: greek metaphysical

[silviaenglish]

rothko, you are my master.

[Napstrpsx]

I'd like to hear from an actual Rothko fan... what exactly do you like about the paintings or find fascinating about them.

Rothko appears to be nothing more than a one-trick pony who preyed off of people that were disconnected with the beauty of reality.

[Matty3232]

Rothko Sucks

[Fangornmmc]

@Matty3232

Then why look at it? Honestly I was not impressed with rothko at all at first but what you need to do is to sit in front of one of those in real life and stare for at least 10 minutes. Then you ahve unveiled a glimpse of what Rothko does. He makes a space, a somewhere and yet nowhere at the same time. A entire new dimension you can't point to it but you are, like everyone else, in desperate need of this place of serenity and understanding. Growth.

[puppetmotel]

@Matty3232 “only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions . . . The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationship, then you miss the point. ” For Rothko, color is "merely an instrument."

[vieryuiop]

A fabulous band and a fabulous painter.

[WhiskeyArjan]

@ Markwett:

I bet you,ve never seen a Rothko in real life. He was a great and revolutionair paintet, but to experience the power of his work, you have to see it in reail life. Radiohead rules, i agree with that. But this video is poor, rothko needs silence and time, and not those terrible fades.

[markwett]

radiohead are fifty times better musicians than Rothko was an artist. ROthko sucks. Radiohead is fantastic. What a weird juxtaposition you set up.

[aaronbrakefield]

speechless