Analyzing Rothko's Paintings

Klein´s art emerged from serious circumstances. France in the late 1940s was still nation traumatized by World War II. The cultural center of gravity had moved across the Atlantic to New York. The artists who remained in Paris, or at least the good ones, were producing post-apocalyptic work, and out of the same rubble came the much younger Klein.

The play RED by John Logan was a phenomenon. It portrays artist Mark Rothko at a serious time of his life, a time where he was becoming depressed and even considering suicide. The play deeply expresses Rothko’s conflicted mindset about the role of art. The conflict between his intellect and will for art represents an internal battle that artists may experience when creating. The play is also a good depiction about the ideas that society has on art... art appreciation. At the same time, the play shares an exhilaration of creating a piece of art. It is

Riza basically set the path of art for the seventeenth century. Many of his students used his artwork to develop styles they would use in their paintings.‍‍‍‍‍In the Safavid art, women are typically shown as separate from men, but many artists including Abbasi, saw things differently‍‍‍‍‍.‍‍‍‍‍ “He painted women with men and sometimes women by themselves to illustrate the ideals of poets that often wrote about love and the importance of women.-

I'm not a painting fan but I do love Matisse painting especially the brightness of it, compare to picasso his painting don't catch my attention that much maybe because I'm more attracted to colorful things like Matisse paintings. Maybe if picasso would it use more colorful paints in his painting it would looks different and more appealing to the human eye, now i'm not saying his paintings are not good but like i said i don't know much about painting i think that color is an important details to catch the attention of many not painting lover like me who knows.

Mark Rothko’s “Seagram Murals” are some of the artist’s most emotional and spiritual paintings he ever produced in his life. In June of 1956, Rothko accepted a commission to decorate the dining room of the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram building on Park Avenue in Manhattan. Rothko became completely captivated with this project as he created thirty canvases when there was only room for seven. Rothko had bad vibes about this project, so he withdrew because he was positive that the wealthy patrons wouldn’t appreciate his paintings. The paintings appeared in London on the morning of Rothko’s suicide. There was never any detail as to why Rothko withdrew so abruptly withdrew his paintings and returned his money in 1959. Rothko described this

I consider Mark Rothko a very influential artist in the Modern Art movement. Rothko was a humble man who had his own perspective on art. He claimed that he was art and that he was the canvas. He was inspired by people around him and many artists before him. His simple art gave him clarity to his heart and soul, always being true to himself with his emotional art.

His expression of color influenced artists like Mark Rothko, who was known for bringing out emotions in viewers just from experimenting with the texture of a color. After Kandinsky, art become much more expressive, emotionally and physically. Some thought Kandinsky took too far of a leap and “turn-of-the-century mysticism-occultism, anarchism, and anarchism [had] been considered too irrational and chaotic to be viewed as serious influences on modernist artists.” 9 Art had never before challenged anyone and Kandinsky was one of the first to bring life to a painting where viewers could reflect and feel for themselves instead of just simply accepting whatever what was in front of them for what it is. Kandinsky took risks that few artists ever took. Some of his paintings had no significant relevance to anything and this was viewed as “dangerous” and that there is nothing to gain from images without meaning. 10 Abstraction was viewed in Kandinsky’s opinion as a “graphic representation of mood rather than as a representation of objects” and this perspective ignited a new method of analyzing. 11 This not only impacted the art world, but it also left a legacy with theorists. He left a legacy that would spark debate about feeling verses seeing and whether or not something really needs meaning to have

Perspective and conception are not always same for every artist. In that case, Kokoschka basically prioritizes the reality in his art. Even though, the majority of his artwork, and painting according to his life and relationship, but he had able to bring the acute emotion and deep meaning into the painting. The similarities of my research paintings by Kokoschka are, each painting carries a real character and has an individual story. Not only just character, but also Kokoschka marked an evident on every paining by his signature on, “OK.” On the other hand, the differences in all of these pictures are, each one has dynamic, dramatic and very unique type pattern. The tone’s and rhythms extended the beauty of Kokoschka’s painting. Though, some

Last in his lifelong series of Compositions, this work is the culmination of Kandinsky's investigation into the purity of form and expression through nonrepresentational painting. Executed in France, this monumental painting relies upon a black background to heighten the visual impact of the brightly colored undulating forms in the foreground. The undulating planes of color call to mind microscopic organisms, but also express the inner emotional and spiritual feelings Kandinsky experienced near the end of his life. The uplifting organization of forms in contrast with the harsh edges and black background illustrates the harmony and tension present throughout the universe, as well as the rise and fall of the cycle of life. The presence of the

Radiance” is a painting of daisies, by Leonid Afremov. There is a small, dark blue vase which contains many white daisies inside. Even though this painting is mostly blue, it does not create a sad tone to the artwork. The lively white flowers and the hint of yellow paint by the vase brightens up the painting, radiating the painting. Although Afremov was not the inventor of the unique techniques involving the palette knife, he was able to develop this already existing style and modify his style. He inspired other artists by reminding them the importance of tradition and modifying them to develop a your own style. This artwork had an impact on me since, I thought all artworks with mostly blue paintings omitted a sad tone. This painting is not

The artwork, “Number 10,” by Mark Rothko displays two rectangles (top, yellow and the bottom, white) with a baby blue background color. Seeing the painting for the first time was surprising since I didn’t understand how it correlated with the title. It was easy to look at, but it didn’t catch my attention right away! I felt confused and frustrated while observing the piece because I didn’t know how I was going to find the meaning that lay behind the painting. This reminded me of my first-born nephew; I had such a difficult time trying to understand why he would cry so much. However, I was aware that crying was his way of communicating how he felt, just like painting this abstract piece was Rothko's style of communication.

The final artist for your consideration is Jackson Pollock, who invented a form of Abstract Expressionist painting called Action Painting. “This kind of painting is called action painting because the painter tries various means of action and by working from different angles throws the paint to the canvas along with the movement, creates canvases.” (Hajali, 2) As such, Pollock expresses more emotional character without any depictions. When you view them, your eye can not land on one spot, there is no beginning and no end. The alpha and omega are lost in an explosion of color and movement, which layers itself in depth, emotion, and creation specifically designed by the artist to look haphazard. More aptly stated, “Pollack's works are not

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, having no set plot may at first confuse some readers, though it starts with creation, it moves on the practices involving Gods and mortals and the changes they incur. The stories seem to follow each other in time, but there are flashback’s that show Ovid is not concerned with the nebulas of time, instead he is showing the transformation’s the characters go through. Passage of time is not Ovid’s point, but as he put in the mouth of Pythagoras, the only constant in the universe is change. Ovid’s character’s changes are usually immediate, Athena changed Talos to a partridge, Daphne was transformed into a laurel tree, and Echo, well was turned into an echo. There is often a discontinuity of time, we know Echo wasted away, but how long that took is not important the theme is, the often lack of the restraints of time is what makes mythology so easy to relate for any era. James Joyce in his novel, Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man, ties his story with the semblances of mythology from the story of Daedalus and Icarus, fusing the ideas that discovery, sacrifice and rebellion is a process needed to be an artist. Though Daedalus and Icarus are from a mythical time and Stephen is living in a specific time during Dublin’s history, all characters are faced with the struggles of existence, self-discovery, and learning how to deal with one’s own need for artistic freedom and the disadvantages such gifts may pose. The path that each undergo, either by

As an expressionist theorist, I recognize that the use of color can express the artist’s emotion. Warhol used a warm color mix of bright yellow, orange, and turquoise on the right section and a dull color mix of black and white tints on the left. By using mixed media that represents a slow-fade of the photos towards the end, Warhol captures life’s transition from the bright and youthful days when one is full of energy to the tragic halt caused by death, which is also signified by the dull colors. Here, the artist provides a form of experience of life and death that the viewer can relate to. The use of acrylic on canvas and screen painting shows a transition in life from the

This research article reflects the idea of art being a form of expression in the midst of our human frailty. The emphasis of the article will explore the idea of spirituality being key element in abstract expressionism. This article includes the work, Critical but Stable, by Esethu Khambule, which is inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s Yellow, Red, Blue as well as Frantisek Kupka, Mme Kupka Among Verticals.