Frases de Mark Rothko

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. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. septiembre 1903 – 25. febrero 1970
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Mark Rothko: Frases en inglés

“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

“I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”

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!

“I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.”

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

“I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible.”

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

“It's a risky business to send a picture out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent who could extend their affliction universally!”

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

“One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist.”

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

“[the first ingredient of his work].. is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality.”

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
1950's

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