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Recreating hallucinations and schizophrenia through digital imagery. These are some ofmy initial ideas...
posted by Miss Kelly @ 1:17 PM
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Critical Diary Report 3
Mark Rothko's work is synonomas with emotion and feeling, this imediately draws me to his bold images. He worked for many years and was one of the founding members of the New York School. I chose to take a look at his work because it has always intriged me and i recently worked on a peice about Abstract expressionism which inticed me to look further.
Rothko was born in 1903 in Lativa, but shortly afterwards emigrated to Portland, Oregon. He painted all his life but was only really acknowledged publicly in around 1960. His work which often simply contains coloured shapes on a large canvas. But Rothko constantly protested about being a colourist saying colours were simply an instument to convey further emotions.
"I am not an abstract painter. I am not interested in the relationship between form and colour. The only thing I care about is the expression of man's basic emotions: tragedy, ecstacy, destiny."
When I first saw Rothko's images as a child I was often unimpressed, thinking they didnt contain much skill. But at one point I saw them and felt involved in the image, it provoked emotion and created an atmosphere. The scale of the images has a great effect on the viewer, I think that theres no justice done in photographs of them. They need to be all consuming, towering infront of you. It was only in the late 40's that he established the style we so often see today with formal compositions of colour and shape. He had previously worked with symbols and was bored of the convetional figure.
These images to me do not hold as much resonance. They need to be read and inturpretted, in the style they were painted, whereas the more typical images are open to personal inturpretation. Some of Rothko's images are influenced by the surrealists who were emigrating to America during the world war. He bagan to losen up and use brush strokes which came from the un concious to produce more abstract imagery. During this time he began working with water colours to produce these fluid results,
These images to me do not hold as much resonance. They need to be read and inturpretted, in the style they were painted, whereas the more typical images are open to personal inturpretation. Some of Rothko's images are influenced by the surrealists who were emigrating to America during the world war. He bagan to losen up and use brush strokes which came from the un concious to produce more abstract imagery. During this time he began working with water colours to produce these fluid results,
This is one of my favourite images, it shows his style moving towards abstarction, and yet contains more visual peices than his later work which simplifys the means to the end of ultimate emotion. In the above image the colour moves gracfully across the canvas and the combination between vertical and horizntal creates a balance which is harmonic yet still appears detailed.
The above image shows Rothko moving an untitled image accross his New York studio, giving us a sense of scale. He did compete a range of smaller works but many are unsure whether these were simply studies for larger images. As time went on Rothko's work became more dark and intense. He began producing alot of dark and deep paintings towards the middle of the 1950's which is often seen to conincide with his state of mind. By the end of the 60's he was physially ill and suffering from depression which ended in him slitting his wrists on 25th Febuary 1970 in his studio. I have always had an interest in the way state of mind affects art and creativity, I believe it shows how expression relates directly to emotion. But also how with the likes of mental illness other forms of expression are often needed as one becomes overcome with the disturbing emotions involved.
I believe anyone who stands infront of Rothko's images will eventually feel great apathy with the artist and have a respect for anyone who can control one's emotions with nothing but a coloured canvas of strokes.
posted by Miss Kelly @ 12:25 AM
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