Mark Rothko | AB EX NY

From the Curator: Mark Rothko

Abstract Expressionist New York
The Museum of Modern Art, October 3, 2010--April 11, 2011
MoMA.org/abexny

Filmed by Plowshares Media
Images courtesy of Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko; Barnett Newman Foundation; The Franz Kline Estate; The Willem de Kooning Foundation; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Kate Rothko; Apic; Getty Images; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York

© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art

[davidkeith]

Very good comments there at the end. Rothko used to emphasize that he was not an abstract painter which can be understood that he wasn't creating an abstraction of anything. The painting was what it was, and as she pointed out the viewer completes the circuit.

[siyabonga]

I am infinitely impressed by Rothko ...

[frankdavis]

Rothko was a great artist. His paintings leave us asking more questions than discovering answers or a sense of enlightenment. Whereas some famous artists paint well, but we forget their works after five minutes. Love him or loathe him, one cannot ignore him.

[boredgrass]

Narration fits very subtle the subject, complimented by the omission of background music! Art education video as artform in it self!

[williamwossowski]

She said there is Action painting and Rothko comes under Still painting. I always heard or read Rothko's paintings being called Color Field painting

[tonybinda]

Thank you Ann. I have been inspired and have six miniatures on the go. 16x20 canvas sheets. Love his work
Thanks.

[matheus.l.rego]

This is the best rothko explanation ever!

[davidkeith]

People are fond of saying "I could do that when visiting an abstract expressionist exhibit". I never thought I could do anything approaching one of Rothko's works, but I thought I'd like to try. So I did. More than once. Not even close.

[brianmcmanus]

I was honestly not a believer until I saw one of his pieces at the Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas whilst on LSD. Oh, my, that was a revelation. Amazing use of color. Cheers!

[lawilder]

Rothko illustrated “solitude”, “prayer”, “spirit”, “meditation”, “quiet”, “sorrow”, and “loneliness”...seeing his work changed my life. He embraced deeply life’s most elusive themes.

[donkey]

It’s either blocks of colors or our own association with the colors that create a scene

[binghamguevara]

4:20. does anyone know the name of the black painting on the left? It's famous but I forget its name.

[liabheferrole]

GREAT WALL PAPER. GREAT TABLECLOTH!!! 😆 🤣

[edwardharley]

nothing comes across in video or in print. Go to Manhattan... save and save... go see them in person at MOMA.
The RED Rothko painting I saw blubbered.... just fall into the colour... brings out the primordial ooze..red..
the red of REDS...deeper...

[glenncambray]

"Rinky tinky on purple grass"

[nkenchington]

Rothko’s paintings get progressively mournful and bleak.

Hope diminishes as reality sets in. Colours darken.

And like a dying sun, or a once vibrant flower, the final form is inevitably quiet.

[liabheferrole]

WHAT A BOAT LOAD OF GIBBERISH NONSENSE!!! 😆 🤣

[carlosromero]

Essas traduções na frente do vídeo isso é ridículo !!!

[marcelolopesribeiro]

I thing he did abstract because he could not paint. This is not art. He is laughing at us.