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Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Jul. 27th, 2013 04:02 pmI started dipping into the Modern European Art book i got in Canterbury. Having wondered at the abstract art of Rothko many years ago which was inspired and fired by me studying an O.U. Arts Foundation course, i have become an ardent advocate of contemporary art.
In terms of the Latin phrase above , art is long and has a long history but life is short and artists die off, some to be remembered and some sadly forgotten . For me , the art of Mark Rothko is to be remembered.
Four Darks In Red 1958
From the Mark Rothko website -.
"Mark Rothko continued to simplify the compositional elements of his paintings. In 1950, he began to divide the canvas into horizontal bands of color. Despite the frontal composition and absence of spatial illusionism in these works, the broad bands of color appear simultaneously to float in front of the picture plane and to merge with the color field upon which they are place, as in Four Darks in Red. A luminosity results from the repeated layering of thin washes of paint, which allows some underpainting to show through the upper coats. In each work of this period, Rothko sought only subtle variations in proportion and color, yet achieved within this limited format a broad range of emotions and moods"
In terms of the Latin phrase above , art is long and has a long history but life is short and artists die off, some to be remembered and some sadly forgotten . For me , the art of Mark Rothko is to be remembered.
Four Darks In Red 1958
From the Mark Rothko website -.
"Mark Rothko continued to simplify the compositional elements of his paintings. In 1950, he began to divide the canvas into horizontal bands of color. Despite the frontal composition and absence of spatial illusionism in these works, the broad bands of color appear simultaneously to float in front of the picture plane and to merge with the color field upon which they are place, as in Four Darks in Red. A luminosity results from the repeated layering of thin washes of paint, which allows some underpainting to show through the upper coats. In each work of this period, Rothko sought only subtle variations in proportion and color, yet achieved within this limited format a broad range of emotions and moods"
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