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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
by Annie Cohen-Solal
this is an excellent book very well written researched careful thinking not fictional...
if you are interested in modern art and the art of Rothko this is the book to read
it is marvelous to read how his art came about and that brings into play the other abstract expressionists of his time.
It is mostly tho about Rothko and his self as a person as an artist. He had been a figurative painter and he became an artist painting a world of colors where he said were his figures right there. He formed few coalitions of like minded artists and really then their path was all new and they were compared with the european artists and their art. He saw himself as the iconoclast the fighter against tradition the innovator. He was enraged at the business of art and how it worked. When however he became a success he was there one of those he hated. He became or maybe always was a very tormented man probably paranoid and his life ended by suicide.
His art intrigues pulls us in brings us to new levels. Annie Cohen-Solal did a brilliant work here
Rothko came to this country from Russia as a very young person and he was Jewish and his father gave him as a child a very religious and deep study. It is said by many that his painting reflects that and the author said that. Maybe so. I think somewhere in his life Rothko lost his way
if you are interested in modern art and the art of Rothko this is the book to read
it is marvelous to read how his art came about and that brings into play the other abstract expressionists of his time.
It is mostly tho about Rothko and his self as a person as an artist. He had been a figurative painter and he became an artist painting a world of colors where he said were his figures right there. He formed few coalitions of like minded artists and really then their path was all new and they were compared with the european artists and their art. He saw himself as the iconoclast the fighter against tradition the innovator. He was enraged at the business of art and how it worked. When however he became a success he was there one of those he hated. He became or maybe always was a very tormented man probably paranoid and his life ended by suicide.
His art intrigues pulls us in brings us to new levels. Annie Cohen-Solal did a brilliant work here
Rothko came to this country from Russia as a very young person and he was Jewish and his father gave him as a child a very religious and deep study. It is said by many that his painting reflects that and the author said that. Maybe so. I think somewhere in his life Rothko lost his way