I really enjoyed seeing No. 14 at SFMOMA. Rothko's canvases are huge and there is a real warmth to them due to being hand-painted oil on canvas. These murals mu

I really enjoyed seeing No. 14 at SFMOMA. Rothko's canvases are huge and there is a real warmth to them due to being hand-painted oil on canvas. These murals must have been a sight to see when they were in good condition. A lot of abstract expressionist and other experimental art pieces suffer from preservation issues, often due to unorthodox techniques and materials such as thick application of paint. It's too bad because you can't properly perceive the texture of real paintings and their sense of light and space when you look at a small wikipedia photograph on a backlit monitor.