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If you're around a Rothko, walk up to it until it fills your field of vision and stare at it without blinking. Within several seconds you'll notice it start to
by alexandersingh 12y ago
If you're around a Rothko, walk up to it until it fills your field of vision and stare at it without blinking. Within several seconds you'll notice it start to move as though it's alive.
I think that you can gain more out of art and, perhaps, a particular artist if you understand their work in context. In this case, understanding what led to Abstract Expressionism and how it influenced artistic development.
- qnaal 12y ago>understanding what led to Abstract Expressionism and how it influenced artistic development You mean the CIA plot during the cold war, with the idea that it would make Russian art/culture seem dated when they didn't take it up? Or so I've heard...
- krapp 12y agoWhile the CIA did secretly fund the abstract expressionist movement and use it as propaganda[0], they didn't invent it out of whole cloth. [0]http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/how_the_cia_turned_american_abstract_expressionism_into_cold_war_propaganda.html http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/how_the_cia_turned_americ...
- stan_rogers 12y agoOne gets the same effect staring at a wall that doesn't have a Rothko hanging on it. Or at a sufficiently large monitor with a static display. Leveraging persistence of vision might make an interesting series, but when it's the only trick the pony can do?
- alexandersingh 12y agoOh I wasn't suggesting that it was unique to Rothko's paintings, though I think it works particularly well with the dense color fields.