This is the thing with Rothko, when you see them in books they do in fact just look like coloured splodges. That was very much my opinion of his work until I sa

This is the thing with Rothko, when you see them in books they do in fact just look like coloured splodges. That was very much my opinion of his work until I saw one in the flesh in the Whitechapel Gallery for the first time. It was just one but the presence it had was hypnotic. I recently went to the Rothko Chappel in Houston, a spiritual setting really is the perfect place to experience his work (note I'm an atheist).