Thursday, June 9, 2011

Other ambient colours

     skin
     white T's
     coded drawstrings
     reflections
     unexpected green







Rothko, untitled, 1952



8 comments:

  1. Spooky, I just purchased a pair of drawstring linen tousers and attended an exhibition of works from MOMA here in Toronto that included a couple of Rothkos.

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  2. Not spooky at all, David. Don't you remember, we met at the Johns, and dined on you at the Granite Club after the museum. I didn't discover the pants until later, of course; but did I not highly approve? Perhaps I hadn't told you my name ..

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  3. One of my very favorite Rothko's.

    xoxo
    Karena
    Art by Karena

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  4. Dear Karena, Again you allow me to thank you for visiting, despite this long deferral of a Rothko. I share your enthusiasm, although no critic or friend could pretend or want to possess another's own reasons for it. My reasons do have a great deal to do with the "unexpected green." Isn't it dramatic?

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  5. It only took you eight words and three pictures to say what I have not been able to articulate in eight years with three "how to talk about Rothko" degrees.

    I am tipping my king.

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  6. Words and pictures, Socrates had mentioned [above], enjoy such a tenuous connection that one almost feels a regicide in this gratuity. But of course I'm thoroughly corrupted by it, anyway. And too bad, because I was hoping to discuss this painter again ..

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  7. Dear Laurent, please forgive me for my lapse of memory re our tete a tete at the Granite Club.

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  8. It's one thing to confess to not recalling one's name, and quite another to forget what we shared together. O I am so humiliated. :)

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