How To Use Rothko In A Sentence
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In the last year of his life, he studied a book of paintings by Mark Rothko, an artist he hadn't known about before, thinking of what could inspire people on the walls of a future Apple campus.
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It looks like modern art, with a nod to Malevich's Black Square, the black paintings of Ad Reinhardt, and the late, suicidal works of Mark Rothko.
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These vibrant color fields have an affinity with the spiritual-esthetic aura of Mark Rothko's canvases.
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Like the most diaphanous works by Turner or Rothko, it suggests representational elements, yet one is hard-pressed to discern any in the image.
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But unlike Newman and Rothko, who used fairly flat, unmodulated pigment, Still used heavily loaded, expressively modulated impasto in jagged forms.
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It was surely from Rothko, though, that he learned the profound truth that a simple shape can be not merely referential to the observed world but can in itself sum up and communicate human ideas.
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Sections devoted to elaborately beaded, exquisitely embroidered and sleekly tailored garments in black and white, red, greige (Armani's trademark, a subtle mixture of grey and beige) or romantic floral prints, are accompanied by text comparing them to the paintings of Ad Reinhardt, Rothko and Matisse.
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Aware of the abstractions of Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, Guston moved alongside them, exploring colour, space and painterly touch alone.
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The horizontal bands of sky and sea take on the rich tonal consistencies of a Rothko abstraction.
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So when, in 1988, their collection manager, Marion Kahan, sent him a copy of the typescript she had discovered among the Rothko papers, he took no notice.
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Looked at in their own right, rather than from the perspective of Rothko's later achievements, the early works are not at all juvenilia; rather, they rank very respectably within American painting of the period.
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Aware of the abstractions of Rothko, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, Guston moved alongside them, exploring colour, space and painterly touch alone.
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Speak of Jackson Pollack, Willem DeKooning and Mark Rothko with worshipful tears glistening in your upturned eyes, taking frequent breaks to compose yourself in between bursts of praise.
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If I use the Rothko Chapel to host my son’s bar mitsvah, I am treating it other than aesthetically, and if I drive a Jaguar to class in College Station, I may be using it for the purpose for which it was intended, but I am hardly driving a work of art.
Comparing Aesthetic Experiences
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These bands are framed by an allover layer of another color that is irregularly edged, the color beneath visible, reminiscent of Rothko's floating islands of color.
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For Rothko the experience of beauty is ‘the experience of rightness, reflected in an ideal of proportions, and as an apperception of harmoniousness, whose recognition produces an exaltation.’
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This audio labor of love for longtime friends Curt Kentner and Mark Rothkopf is built upon a deep-rooted love for the music-primarily anchored to the genre of indie pop, or the slightly less complimentary tag of "twee" - they've released over these past 10 years.
Portland Mercury
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That's why I dont understand Rothko or David Foster Wallace or take your pick - the only time I felt that bad was when I think I had a head full of tolulol or xylol and was eating bagels coffee and beer.
Set the record straight (revised)
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Redmayne portrayed the young, increasingly disillusioned assistant to Rothko, the abstract expressionist who agonizes over whether to accept a lucrative commission for the Four Seasons restaurant.
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They spin and colour the wool themselves, using natural dyes, and create hand-made woollen garments including some very natty jumpers based on Rothko paintings.
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One could say that his reach exceeded his grasp, for Rothko was not a professional philosopher or historian of art, nor indeed a professional cultural comparatist (this last discipline could hardly be said to exist at the time he wrote).
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Rothko favored a spireless octagonal chapel for the new building, simpler than Johnson's proposal.
An Interior of Spiritual and Artistic Subtlety
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With the exception of its poorly attended Rothko Retrospective, tonight, Nov.13, at 8 p.m., marks Bifteck's first official hi-culture vernissage.
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This statement, along with a raft of other utterances Rothko made over the years, has given rise to an art critics 'cottage industry: lending narrative interpretations -- from nativities to entombments -- to his paintings.
Darkness Into Light
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In the intervening time Rothko stopped painting, devoting himself instead to the study of philosophy and mythology.
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Now, he's understudying a Tony-nominated star, Alfred Molina, in "Red," a play about abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.
Waiting In The Wings With Broadway's Understudies
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To make this even more tedious, on page 397 (twenty-one pages after Rothko first walked into the ship's bar) there is a kind of intermezzo between these two redundant descriptions of that first night out, in which we are told: "In May of 1959 Mark and Mell Rothko were preparing to leave New York for their second trip to Europe.
Writing on Rothko
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A substantial literature, unplumbed by Rothkopf, explores this topic.
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Enteneyeren, die wol gebraten sind, Rothkohl mit feysem fleisch gekockt, alte Huner kleyn gehacket, Hanen Kammen, Swezerichen, Schaffe und Geisse-milch mit Reisz gekockt, auch Kalbs und Taubengehirn viel gegessen mit Nucis Muscati; und Reinischer Wein mesich getruncken; es is gewis wan ihr dieses vielmaal thut, ihr zold wieder kreftich und mechtich werden, und es werd sijner liebsten auch gar wol gevellich zein.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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An encounter with a Rothko painting is always an encounter with the man who made it and his uneasy vision of life.
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He was the main and practically only channel through whom this subtle colouristic tradition was sustained in America until a new interest was taken in it in the 1940s by younger artists such as Rothko and Gottlieb.
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Rothko stresses that the contrast between abstract and representational painting is overdrawn, that all art has subject matter.
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Michael Grandage announced the program for the remainder of 2009, including his own world-premiere production of John Logan's Mark Rothko bioplay "Red" and the Spanish Golden Age classic "Life Is a Dream," helmed by Jonathan Munby.
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So we've a representative of a polytheistic society next to the peaceful and meditative Rothko and a load of outsider-art-influenced herberts.
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Rothko would have justly replied that it was precisely in order to convey humanist content that he had dispensed with subject matter.
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The play follows artist Mark Rothko as he constructs his most famous work alongside his assistant Ken- played by Osment.
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I think he must have seen Rothko's last great monochromes in 1969, just before his suicide.
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Avoid the forty-dollar margaritas and go for martinis and negronis in a bar done up in Rothko-esque paints and Fink! jugs.
