25 September 2021

Happy Birthday, Rothko

Mark Rothko, Black Blue Painting, 1968


Mark Rothko was born on this day in 1903.


The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass.  This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command. 


Mark Rothko


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