Rothko Squared

What Mark Rothko might have done in video. This is my experience of being upclose to a Rothko. My dynamic soundscape evolves to his electric visuals.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• jgyoungmd
• music
• keyboard
• improv
• animation
• intermedia
• Rothko
• graphics

[rebecca09suzanne]

you don't understand rothko at all. he himself said "I am not interested in relationships of color or forms or anything else . . . I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions . . . If you are only moved by their (the paintings)color relationships then you miss the point" His art has nothing to do with the color you dwell so much on but it has to do with the emotion you feel when viewing it. Go take another look and then do one on how you feels when viewing a Rothko.

[jgyoungmd]

it has to do with the emotion

[stellamcartney]

I totally agree with bnmc07 and the fact that you should have focus on the way the eye gradually adjusts to the image/painting interfering in our sense of space, and also of perception and subjective emotions. Nevertheless an interesting experiment.

[Jefferdaughter]

@rebecca09suzanne - Interesting, and I do not disagree, but Rothko nonetheless is referred to as a 'colorist'. Yet what does it mean to be ""only moved by their (the pointings') color relationships...'" except "the emotion you feel when viewing..."? Perhaps one analyzes how the color affects one, while the second refers directly to the effect? It seems the same to me. (an artist)

[Jefferdaughter]

@amratheblack - A good point. The music and the images were interferring with my response to each, so I muted the sound.

[thealee]

lol.

[WatchesCrows]

This is an interesting and unique feature of youtube, and quite efficacious.

[naughtynerd76]

rothko sucks!!!this is not ART!

[RandaldGreenwalt]

See comments below, you don't understand Rothko at all.

Think "Mark Rothko: The MTV tribute" and imagine the spin of his ashes.

[LuLLoMo]

Mark Rothko is a master.but his way of painting was basically outside the paint: it's the paint that give a qualification to the space and not the opposite. Your experiment is a good one, but i think it doesn't share anything with him.i'm not saying you didn't understand anything about that. About the emotions i dont agree.Rothko was a quiet artist,the opposite of Jackson Pollock:his way of painting was think up, slow...emotions, but controlled!