“A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.”
As quoted in 'Mark Rothko', Dorothy Seiberling in LIFE magazine (16 November 1959), p. 82
1950's
Marcus Rothkowitz , conocido como Mark Rothko , fue un pintor y grabador nacido en Letonia, que vivió la mayor parte de su vida en los Estados Unidos. Ha sido asociado con el movimiento contemporáneo del expresionismo abstracto, a pesar de que en varias ocasiones expresó su rechazo a la categoría «alienante» de pintor abstracto.[1] En 1925 inició su carrera como pintor en Nueva York de modo autodidacta. En torno a 1940 realizaba una pintura muy similar a la obra de Barnett Newman y Adolph Gottlieb, próxima al surrealismo y plagada de formas biomórficas. A partir de 1947 su estilo cambió y comenzó a pintar grandes cuadros con capas finas de color. Con el paso de los años, la mayoría de sus composiciones tomaron la forma de dos rectángulos confrontados y con bordes desdibujados por veladuras.
Son frecuentes los grandes formatos que envuelven al espectador, con la finalidad de hacerle partícipe de una experiencia mística, ya que Rothko daba un sentido religioso a su pintura. Al final de su vida sus cuadros son de tonalidades oscuras, con abundancia de marrones, violetas, granates y, sobre todo, negros. Corresponde a esta época la Capilla Rothko de la familia De Menil, en Houston, un espacio de oración donde catorce cuadros rodean un espacio octogonal dedicado a la meditación.
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“A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.”
As quoted in 'Mark Rothko', Dorothy Seiberling in LIFE magazine (16 November 1959), p. 82
1950's
1950's
Fuente: Conversations with Artists, Selden Rodman, New York Devin-Adair 1957. p. 93.; reprinted as 'Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956', in Writings on Art: Mark Rothko (2006) ed. Miguel López-Remiro p. 119 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=ZdYLk3m2TN4C&pg=PA119
Contexto: I am not an abstractionist... I am not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else... I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!
Fuente: after 1970, posthumous, Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990, p. 167
in Art of this Century, February 12 – March 2, 1946, Peggy Guggenheim Papers on the work of Clyfford Still; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 203
1940's
letter to Clyfford Still, undated; as quoted in Mark Rothko : A Biography (1993), James E. B. Breslin / and Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 170
after 1970, posthumous
Fuente: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), pp. 38-39
Joint statement with Adolph Gottlieb, to Edwin A. Jewell, often referred to as a Manifesto. (written 7 June 1943; published 13 June 1943)
1940's
in The Romantics were prompted, essay by Mark Rothko, 1947/48; as quoted in Possibilities, vol 1, no. 1, winter 1947-48, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christophor Rothko.
1940's
Fuente: after 1970, posthumous, Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990, p. 168
Fuente: after 1970, posthumous, Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990, pp. 167-168
Fuente: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), pp. 38-39
Fuente: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), pp. 39-40
Quote from Rothko's letter to Whitney's director Lloyd Goodrich, End of 1952; as cited in Mark Rothko, a biography, James E. B. Breslin, University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 304
Rothko was turning down a museum purchase
1950's
Fuente: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), pp. 38-39
common statement in 'The New York Times', 8 July 1945
1940's
As quoted in Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 143
1950's
1950's
Fuente: Interiors, Vol. 110, no 10, May 1951; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 172
Fuente: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), p. 38
As quoted in Conversations with Artists (1957) by Selden Rodman, p. 92; later published in 'Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956' in Writings on Art : Mark Rothko (2006) ed. Miguel López-Remiro ISBN 0300114400
1950's
Fuente: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), pp. 39-40
Fuente: after 1970, posthumous, Abstract Expressionism, Creators and Critics', 1990, p. 168
in conversation with W.C. Seitz
Quote of Rothko in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 116
after 1970, posthumous
Fuente: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), pp. 39-40
radio broadcast, together with Adolph Gottlieb, 1943
1940's
Fuente: 1940's, Beyond the Aesthetics (1946), pp. 39-40
1942, on the late painting 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' of Piet Mondrian
Quote of Rothko, in Painters Objects, Robert Motherwell, pp. 95, 96; as cited in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, pp. 128-129
1940's
Quote from Rothko's 1958 lecture at the Pratt Institute; as cited in Mark Rothko, a biography, James E. B. Breslin, University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 28
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