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If you have only seen color field paintings in books, seeing them in person at a museum might help resolve some of the mystery. They can have a powerful physica
by blt 5y ago
If you have only seen color field paintings in books, seeing them in person at a museum might help resolve some of the mystery. They can have a powerful physical presence. Maybe still overpriced, but not worthless.
- kingsuper20 5y agoThe better color field paintings strike me as good quality industrial graphics art, perfect for a textbook/album cover or a corporate HQ lobby. Time will tell on whether Rothko is a scam or has lasting value. I fully appreciate the self-belief and self-marketing that goes into this stuff, a form of visual John Cage. My favorite ones, and I wish I could find an example as my Google-Fu is failing me, are the guys that simply paint a whole canvas a solid color. Basically metastasized paint chips.
- blt 5y agoEllsworth Kelly?
- munificent 5y agoI respect people who have differing opinions but standing in front of a Rothko close enough to have it fill my entire field of vision is still one of my favorite experiences with art. Even in reproductions, I find his paintings to be evocative and emotive.