The speaker keeps repeating an important thing about Rothko's works - that standing in front of them has an impact you don't get from seeing them in books or in KZfaq videos. It's like the difference between seeing online photos by Ansel Adams and having one right in front of you. Generally speaking, KZfaq is the best place to learn about Art and the worst place to experience it. 🐧

Was lucky enough to see him seated alone at table in MOMA's garden one day. I went over and told him I loved his paintings but was too shy to say anything else. He thanked me and I left. Have since read much about him and what I love above all is how generous he was with his money. Always asking young artists he knew if they had enough money when he met them. Surely a sensitive soul like Mark is now enjoying a wonderful next life.

Beautiful description of Rothko's work!

The Maroon and Black painting always reminds me of a dreamy window..

I love his paintings.

There is something behind these paintings... it could be cavas idk

In Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man, David Lehman writes: “When an abstract painting by Mark Rothko is described as ‘a palimpsest of traces’ in which the painter’s ‘image-sign enabled him to elide or dismantle such conventional binaries’ as birth and death, we suspect that the student may have spent more time mastering Derrida’s vocabulary than looking at Rothko’s pictures” (31). Maybe so, but the suspicion would be unfounded (presupposing, as it does, a reductive reading of “palimpsest of traces” that presumptuously confines it to a tidy kind of conceptual impressionism that WOULD be palpably inappropriate as a full description of a visual artwork, as it makes no mention of such factors as color, content, form, and so forth). Yet the kind of deconstructive art criticism Lehman derides is not nearly as unsuitable as he assumes. “Palimpsest of traces” may sound unnecessarily vague, but one shouldn’t just assume that any vagueness is unnecessary. “Traces of WHAT?” We may not fully know, but Rothko’s paintings are exactly that: luminous multi-metaphorical signifiers, picturing not emptiness but FULLNESS, strangely stuffed with traces. Psychic sediment sifted from visual history. The reified residue of art-historical memory? The word “palimpsest” comes from the Greek palimpsestos, a combination of “plain” (i.e. again) and “psestos” (i.e. rubbed smooth). Thus, the word quite precisely contains one of Rothko’s main methods. To assert that the work elides such binaries as birth and death may be less beautiful than what Simon Schama says of the work, that Rothko manifests “the poignancy of our comings and our goings, our entrances and our exits, our births and our deaths; womb, tomb, and everything between” (Power of Art). Words like elide and binary may be less “poetic” in the usual sense, yet gesture in the direction of a similar sense of the sublime. “Elide” comes from the Latin “elidere”, meaning “to crush out”. Pigment, Rothko’s primary tool, is itself a crushed-out substance, and is, in some subliminal sense, always alluding to rebirth, resurrection. So the statement is not as unsuitable as Lehman assumes. --from Christopher Forgues and the Poetry of Comix (2020) by James D Bowman 3

It’s alive,that’s it !

They say there's a sucker born every minute. I say it's way more than one.

This painting is so moving, I might cry if I see it irl

When I look out of the red window I also see darkness.

No fluctuations the artist knew what his project was an optical expression and an entrant into his space this was a special pass which his audience experience but again undoubtedly a journey into his paintings is like a great experience 🎉

Rothko created an "essential" art piece with those works, and I think that says it all about a lot of art.

So Rothko couldn't bring himself to install his works in such a commercial environment, so now they are valued at approximately $25,000,000- to $35,000,000- by Sotheby's. Sign of the times.

this is sublime.

There are two empty glass milk bottles. One is a masterpiece & the other is just a bottle. Why?

Perhaps a deep dark chocolate crusted brownie paired with a small bowl filled to the brim with red wine would express the subtle emotions of the painted canvas .

I kind of like the blue squares over red.

The narration is pretentious hog wash.🙄

I think so much is being read into his works that isn't really there. It's incredibly simplistic, yet art historians and intellectuals want to imbue it with all this meaning. The only thing that I can relate to is them saying that it's introspective.

I dont get it. At this point these are simple wall ornaments.

its not just art its the pause button!

Very interesting film - thank you so much!

Why did it have to be a music video...? In the minute and 30 seconds I was able to endure the loud music, I found the "background narration" meaningful, and very interesting! It would be worth a video "in it's own right".

"Accelerate the velocity of his brush.." Sure..

Seeing the Rothko murals and the Rothko trypglitch tri panels jeez people I feel like I painted them myself and that I mostly mastered field theory gosh I would to have loved to paint those paintings those tri panels

His work was well placed satire. He must have died laughing.

It is a magnificent painting and I love it a lot.

Ok I was in the state and fully understand dimensional pictorial images Holy am I high. CHEERS

To those who fail to understand Rothko: You would be changed if you've seen it in person

This is the equivalent of “I didn’t do my homework but I’m still smart so give me a good grade”.

Experiencing "Black On Maroon", I felt myself to be standing on an unknown, distant red planet, gazing off across its faraway horizon into the endless expanse of Eternity. My human eyes, having evolved seeing masses of color, rejecting the Absolute Blackness, provide moving shapes and shades of deepest indigo, rich burgundy...steely greys... and I am. SPELLBOUND.....

wunderful report. thanks

You have to be a madman to enjoy Rothko's paintings

Funny. Most of you wouldn’t know beauty if it punched you in the face.

"The Irascibles " 👍

Be aware that the speaker works for Sotheby's. They have a financial interest in maintaining the myth of Rothko's insipid paintings. They make unbelievable fees selling them. The entire Art Market / Industry works in similar fashion. The rest of us just roll our eyes.

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The most beautiful artist in this video... Is the speaker that can use the most luxurious language imaginable... to describe utter bullshit. The emperor has no clothes.

I see windows

I would imagine that viewing the work the ability to spend time with them might give me a different 😊experience , but all I hear is a creative monologue with esoteric words but see nothing important.

In a whole every painting is a signature on its own. Look at the Chinese kalligrafie on a canvas… You do not understand and yet you know it is Chinese. And yet you know it is Rothko…

I don't get it

I love Rothko, but don't let him bullshit you. It's just art.

I feel like he was just trolling you fine art snobs

Someone's going to love me. And when they do, it'll be the biggest mistakes of their lives. We'll end it there I think~

Weekly manga with spectacular art pieces cost 3 dollars a square painted on a canvas million.

Started doing oil painting myself a few months ago. I love art. Actual art. I don't get the appeal of Rothko. It looks like something I could do on a weekend, with a ton of paint, of course, to cover a canvas that big. His #11 sold for like $50 million a few years back. Absolutely nuts. There are some incredible artists who are worth millions IMO with the fine art they made. Rothko is not one of those people.

in order to provoke an optical experience in the viewer. just that?????

He was aight.

dude this guy is fucking dropping gems

The only art in his work ,,convince the elite that this is art ..

I'm about, to, descend upon the Earth. One simply quite requests,

Why show the price? It is totally irrelevant.

Rothko's paintings have a deep hidden meaning? Hahahahaha 😂😆

He's not the Spokesperson.

Quanto materiale sprecato per quelle croste senza senso fatte passare per opere d'arte.

this inspired me

Speaker : " Rothko intended to create a drama he moves to a inward state where he is seeking to create a really essential and contemplated................... .............. intended to provoke in viewer ............." Rothko : oh really ! aaww ok.(whatever.... I was just cleaning my dry paint brush on a canvas)

I must be a heathen because I do not get it.

Rothko made easy art for the dumb and the rich..compare Rothko with for exemple Monet. Rothko is just lacking in every artistic aspect

A schizophrenic person would bring some excitement into this. Great paintings; dull commentary

You can literally get the same effect from staring at your bedroom wall if you pretend it was painted by a genius who killed himself. Just saying.

Stupid as I am I don’t understand Lack of beauty Lack of importance Boredom

I should become a painter and called it 'Blank'. what you see is a white canvas painted in black to create an understanding between the blurry line of being blank and blurred. It also infuse layer of dimensions of the grey black paint which indicates the painter state of mind. Yeah, who knows it will sold millions of dollars. 🤔💵

Not good in my opinion. I could replicate that in like thirty seconds - I’m sure my four year old could too

ooh my god? is this a joke? 🤣🤣🤣

A 2-year baby can paint this and it will come out with brush variants n strokes like this. He needs a scale, red and blue paint with a large brush.

Honestly I don't get it 🤷 and I love to paint and abstract is my favorite but this 🤷😩

God this speaker is waxing more than just poetic. It’s propaganda! LOL

I love the attempts of the pretentious art dealer who tries to defend spending millions on rothko's smudgy squares. my kid paints like that. art like this is a joke!!!

Horrible speaker

LOL

I think there's something hidden behind his painting, maybe some secret of his life 😀

These people talk too much about paintings to sell them for millions,for me its just colors over colors nothing special.

Rothko was like let's make the shitiest laziest painting and see if it will sell millions. The plan worked

Rothko's 'art' is a joke. It's laughable. There was an art exhibition of Rithko's 'art' and a guy ask people who were leaving the exhibit to look at three paintings outside the exhition, and they had to guess which was a genuine Rothko. They got it correct 1 out of 3. Which proves everything about bs art.

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Its literally just two blobby squares. This is crap!

This Commentary, by the young chap, is so quite ridiculous, I don't know whether to laugh at its absurdity, or (in some blind, oh-what-the-hell, he's almost convincing), (I've little mental esoteric dynamic to colour-by-numbers on ocassion), (~so shoot me), but still, this is unbelievably sh*t, so much so, I almost believe I need to eat fruit.... *

Pffff HAHAHA.

Overeducated wordsmiths try desperately to make you believe that you actually see something that’s not there. They possess a skill that could elevate a clump of excrement to seem otherworldly. Sorry…don’t see it. Doesn’t move me a bit to look any longer than what is necessary for me to realize how marketing and advertising can work it’s spell on the most intelligent, and affluent of our species.

embarassing

I hear told of the stuffy art gallery owner defending against the inferred 'simplisity' of a Rothko, that turned out to be a counterfeit rendered by an amateur first year art student. To argue the artists work is equal in complexity to any one of the European masters of the late middle ages, is either wishful thinking, diminished quality of vision, or both.

Honestly Rothko's work is the biggest con ever. Someone was going to do it eventually.

What shit.

The great lie of contemporary art...what a shame.

a 5 year old could do better.🤣 my 6 year old daughter could? this has to be a joke. hahaha

"the artist accelerated his brush strokes from the 1950,s"...........oh ive no doubt he did after he realized idiots wanted to pay silly money for canvases..........i can knock out 50 talentless paintings every single day just like whats on show here and if i get on the good side of an art dealer & critic wanting quick bucks (most would sell their granny btw) - id be making quick bucks too.

David Galperin is the type of guy that would stand right next to you at the urinal when several others are vacant. He's talking pish

Crap. I wouldn't give you $10 for this pos. To me the canvas its painted on has more value than the painting.

Crap like this exists only to be pretentious. These kinds of paintings should be famous just because they signify gatekeeping artistic imagination.

You lost me when you showed a young woman, sitting by herself in front of a Rothko and she is wearing a mask . Nope. Lost me completely.