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	NGA \| Mark Rothko \| Classic Paintings 5
		Rothko in his West 53rd Street studio, painting what may be a version of Untitled,1952-1953 (Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao), photograph by Henry Elkan, c.
		This may well give the key to the observer of the ideal relationship between himself and the rest of the pictures.
		I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.
	www.nga.gov /feature/rothko/classic5.html (285 words)

	Books & Reading: Chapter One
		First, Rothko's achievement has generated a body of commentary which is profuse even by the standards of the already voluminous and ever-expanding literature on the movement of which he was a leader, abstract expressionism.
		In Rothko's case, it is worth noting how much has already been assumed and written, without the full disclosure of the oeuvre and the perspectives to match.
		Since numerous studies have recounted Rothko's history in varying degrees of detail, I have sought to avoid repeating the routine facts and themes that are by now ensconced in the literature in preference to thorny or less trafficked ones such as the interrelations between individual pictures and the role of sources.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/markrothko.htm (2103 words)

	TV: 'ROTHKO CONSPIRACY,' A MOVIE - New York Times
		The story is true, of course: the painter was Mark Rothko, the three executors the late Bernard Reis, accountant to star artists; the late Morton Levine, an anthropology professor, and Theodoros Stamos, a painter.
		As evidence of the heat the Rothko case still generates, nearly 13 years after the artist's death and seven years after the original trial ended, we now have ''The Rothko Conspiracy,'' a 90-minute film to be shown tonight at 9 o'clock on Channel 13's American Playhouse series.
		As for tastelessness, we see shots of Rothko staring at the razor he used as he holds it in paint-stained fingers, his corpse lying in its blood, and a number of closeups of his face as he lies in his coffin, wearing the glasses that apparently cracked when he fell.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E2D61538F930A35756C0A965948260 (640 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Rothko was using fields of color in his aquarelles and city scenes and his subject matter and form was, by this time, decidedly non-intellectual, of formal concern, though the composition betrays a deep intellect.
		Rothko, Gottlieb and Newman read and discussed the works of Freud and Jung, in particular their respective theories concerning dreams and the archetypes of the collective unconscious, and understood mythological symbols as images that refer to themselves, operating in a space of human consciousness that transcends specific history and culture.
		Rothko later said his artistic approach was "reformed" by his study of the "dramatic themes of myth." He apparently stopped painting altogether for the length of 1940, and read Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and Frazer's Golden Bough.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Mark_Rothko (7796 words)

	Rothko the writer - The Boston Globe
		Throughout, Rothko shows not only that he is good with words, but that they were important enough to him to justify, at least occasionally, ``this wrestling match with the typewriter." Yet Rothko assigned writing a decidedly secondary role, always aware of its power to interfere with the viewer's direct experience of art.
		Rothko was a tireless editor of his own writing, and even his well honed public statements maintained a disarming generosity.
		Rothko tries repeatedly to articulate what should and should not be said about his art, changing his mind continually about how best to accompany his paintings with words.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/06/18/rothko_the_writer (1227 words)

	jaime wright
		Rothko left us with the image of a single human figure, alone in a moment of utter silence and immobility, with his arms outstretched in an attitude of Christ-like defeat and victimization.
		Rothko is conflating the victim and predator by merging the eagle and the hare with the crucified Jesus.
		Rothko died alone, in a cold studio after pressing a blade so deep into his forearm--from his the inside of his elbow to his wrists--that all he could do was literally fall back and die in a pool of his own blood.
	www.jaimewright.ws /rothko.html (5271 words)

	Ramez Qureshi Rothko and the Sublime
		The attempt to whitewash Rothko’s emotional life from his painting elides the necessary subject-object dialectic involved in the construction of the artwork.
		Now of course Rothko is not "formless," yet he is not naturalistic, so the formless is not conveyed: it is represented, the sublime redoubled in an overwhelming sublimity which says that the object will make the viewer experience the sublime from the outset.
		The viewing of the sublime in a Rothko is not a mere subject put into utrmoil confronting an object but specifically a subject put into turmoil confronting an object made by a subject in turmoil.
	home.jps.net /~nada/rothko.htm (1212 words)

	Art/Museums: Mark Rothko exhibition 1998-9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Although Rothko has the reputation of being a poor technician, it is striking that he adopted a number of the thoroughly traditional materials and techniques discussed in Doerner's book, notably the grinding of his own pigments and the use of a variety of egg tempera.
		Rothko's work would move onto to more bizarre landscapes and draw, according to Weiss, "primarily on the subaqueous surrealist images of Yves Tanguy…whose pictures were understood to represent inner landscapes of the mind." "Tanguy's work was accessible during 1945-46 in two exhibitions at the Pierre Matisse Gallery," Weiss noted.
		Rothko's street scenes are also characterized by claustrophobic buildings and somber, sparsely inhabited city squares….The early work of Giorgio de Chirico is generally acknowledged to have left an imprint on these images, although Rothko's idiom has little in common with the modernist's deadpan technique.
	www.thecityreview.com /rothko.html (2946 words)

	Mark Rothko - BIOGRAPHY
		Rothko's most celebrated works, those of his 'classic' era, employing his 'signature format,' evolved from the late 1940's, after which he painted in no other style, always revising and refining the process, right up to the time of his death.
		My decision to study Rothko was initially the prompt of a BBC 2 programme, (as is elaborated upon later) which developed into an empathy with his works, leading me to the research this study is based on.
		Rothko also added this interesting interpretation of scale to the debate: "Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way." 13 Such sentiments highlight a wish for interaction between viewer and painting; a two-way discourse.
	www.btinternet.com /~intergalactic/RothkoWeb/Rothko.htm (1585 words)

	Trevor Pateman: "Aesthetic Engagement: Mark Rothko"
		But this is to run ahead of myself, and I return to the Rothko room where I supposed that someone becoming aware of psychosomatic changes affecting them might begin to theorise or interpret their reactions as awe, sadness, grief and so on.
		In the very unusual and specific case of the Rothko Room (though the same applies to comparable installations), the effect of having several related paintings hung together may well be that it enables confirmation to be had of the rightness of engaged response to an individual painting.
		Again, it is clear in the case of the Rothko Room how non-aesthetic responses as causal effects of it as an environment are congruent with - co-operate with - the responses which emerge from an aesthetic engagement with the paintings.
	www.selectedworks.co.uk /rothko.html (2812 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Career and Work of Mark Rothko -- August 5, 1998
		And by 1950, Mark Rothko was making paintings like this one, which he showed Dore Ashton on her first visit to his studio.
		And from this period onward Mark Rothkos are as recognizable as Norman Rockwells: variations on a common, in his case transcendental, theme.
		The dark and brooding result-considered by Rothko to be his most important work, was prelude to the fl paintings done a few years later-to some, subtle exercises in the sparest of colors--to others, signs of physical deterioration and mental despair.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec98/rothko_8-5.html (1716 words)

	Art/Museums: Jackson Pollock: Mumbo Jumbo & Mud Pies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rothko’s and Pollock’s, on the other hand, do not, although their mature works were preceded by voyages through surrealism and mythology.
		Rothko was more grandiose and pretentious while Pollock can be excused his arrogance because of his adulation.
		Rothko produced far more "good" art, but, earlier comments notwithstanding, quantity is not what counts, and "bad" art, per se, is not necessarily bad in the end.
	www.thecityreview.com /pollock.html (4195 words)

	Le Temps - Livres
		En 1988, donc, l'archiviste des enfants de Mark Rothko leur dit qu'elle a peut-être retrouvé LE livre, celui dont on parle dans la famille mais qu'on n'a jamais vu, un livre que le peintre aurait rédigé au début des années 1940 et qu'il n'aurait jamais achevé.
		Christopher Rothko se justifie en avançant l'argument classique dans ce genre de situations: il ne voulait pas priver les amateurs et les chercheurs d'un document qui aide à comprendre l'uvre de son père.
		Rothko savait n'être pas un grand peintre, pas même un petit maître, mais il n'envisageait rien d'autre, pour exister, que la peinture.
	www.letemps.ch /livres/Critique.asp?Objet=3194 (614 words)

	Rothko Mark: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Rothko emigrated to the United States in 1913.
		Rothko's images to some degree presaged some of the techniques of the later color-field painting.
		ROTHKO, MARK roth ko, 1903 70, American painter...by J. Breslin (1993); D. Anfam, Mark Rothko: the Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonnes (1998); P. Selz, Mark Rothko (1972); L. Seldes, The Legacy of Mark...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/rothko_mark.jsp (1508 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features -- Nonobjectivity as a Crisis of Subjectivity
		Shifting to Rothko and Motherwell, the emphasis is less on nightmarish materialism than on nightmarish alienation -- less on materialistic society than on its devastating effect on the self, although it also turns out to be -- or by force of will can be turned into -- a spiritual opportunity for the self.
		Rothko states: "The unfriendliness of society to his activity is difficult for the artist to accept.
		Indeed, in a sense the abstract painting of Rothko and Motherwell reconciles empathy and abstraction, in Worringer's sense.
	www.artnet.com /magazine/features/kuspit/kuspit4-13-01.asp (7582 words)

	Mark Rothko
		Yet, two pages further on, Rothko is quoted as hating and distrusting "all art historians, experts and critics" and prone to revising his artistic evolution the better, presumably, to foil such worthies.
		It is clear that Rothko was aware of these formal and functional requirements of a mural; it is also clear that he was constitutionally incapable of meeting them.
		With Rothko, therefore, it hardly matters that he turned his colored rectangles on their side the better to achieve architectonic images; they do not work because he is, for all practical purposes, turning Nature and his own nature on their side.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/R/rothko.html (3499 words)

	Mark Rothko
		Mark Rothko was a painter, often classified as an abstract expressionist (although Rothko vociferously denied being an abstract painter).
		In 1958, Rothko was commissioned by Philip Johnson to paint a series of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York, a project he worked on for most of a year.
		Ultimately, Rothko was not happy having his paintings as the backdrop to gourmet dining, so he gave a set of nine of the maroon and fl paintings to the Tate Gallery where they are on permanent display in an installation designed by Rothko.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Rothko.html (266 words)

	n+1
		For some reason, I had imagined a space full of Rothko’s color field paintings, which are sometimes dull, but often almost bright—each and every one a trademark symbol of existential defiance, lingering in poster form upon the walls of dorm rooms and studio apartments.
		Johnson’s proposed ceilings were too high—they needed to be the height of Rothko’s 69th Street carriage-house studio in Manhattan, since the paintings needed to be arranged precisely as they had been arranged within the mock-up chapel Rothko had erected there.
		Dominique de Menil, heiress to the Schlumberger fortune and benefactress of the Rothko Chapel, attested to Rothko’s “absolute certitude of having created the greatest religious monument of his time.” She herself did not see fit to confirm or deny the conviction.
	www.nplusonemag.com /rothko.html (1395 words)

	The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		And yet--as Christopher Rothko points out in his clear-eyed and useful introduction--the process of wrestling ideas onto the page may have helped the artist find a personal means of expressing the "tragic emotionality" that he believed to be the essence of all great art.
		Rothko longed to discover a new, post-Christian "myth" that could express a unified outlook on life by embodying "the world of ideals." Little did he realize at the time that the resolution of his dilemma would be based on a radically new approach to handling paint and using color.
		Rothko himself never brought it forth, and it was not found at his death.
	www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=0300102534 (605 words)

	42opus \| Brian Willems \| Caravaggio's Rothko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The 400-year-old painting contained an exact, miniature replica of Rothko's monumental canvas, a postage-stamp version of the American original, hiding in the brushstrokes of Judith's neck's shadow dissolving into her breast, deepened by a dark crease in her flesh.
		In my case, Rothko and his wife Mell were in Portland in October, 1948, for Rothko's mother's funeral, 50 miles from the private collection Judith was pried out of, as I mentioned, a few years ago.
		In the mid 40's Rothko was as famous a self-promoter as he was as a recluse in the 50's.
	www.42opus.com /contents/contents.php?iss=v4_4&pg=caravaggio (1012 words)

	Entertainment: Vincent Gallo Does Rothko - Gawker
		It took an extreme case of willpower to avoid Rothko last night and not check out director Vincent Gallo's double-header performance, but ultimately we didn't want to completely die on the inside before the weekend even hits.
		Gawker special correspondent Karen didn't pay attention to the music anyhow, but she did endure bright red lights and more Brown Bunny imagery than she needed.
		The hipsters were pretty restless last night at Vincent Gallo's second show at Rothko in the LES.
	www.gawker.com /topic/vincent-gallo-does-rothko-020331.php (227 words)

	Rothko - Truth Burns EP (Foundry)
		While it's really cool that they get those sounds from a bass guitar, the music wouldn't succeed if the songs weren't good enough to stand on their one, which in Rothko's case, they certainly are.
		To creat their songs, Rothko uses gutteral rattlings and bubbling loops of static provide the backdrop for a melodic bassline to float in and out.
		Only, Rothko would be a very laid back version of Dianogah with a good deal more ambience.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2000/rothko2.shtml (338 words)

	Simplicity → clarity → being understood: Mark Rothko, etc. - (37signals)
		Viewing a Rothko in person is absolutely amazing, the scale (these are BIG paintings) and the vibrancy are stunning.
		It is also important to remember that Rothko’s final works were about color and color relationships, Mondrian’s final works were about abstraction, neither of them were about “simplicity”.
		Rothko is amazing, I high suggest viewing his paintings at the Tate Modern in London.
	www.37signals.com /svn/posts/210-simplicity-clarity-being-understood-mark-rothko-etc?17 (3070 words)

	Theodoros Stamos: Biographical Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Rothko case lasts for six years and involves the reversal of the executors' decision to sell 100 of Rothko's 798 paintings to Marlborough Gallery for $ 1.8 million and cosign to the same gallery the other 698 for sale at fifty per cent commission.
		The main charges of this case are conspiracy and conflict of interest, in the case of Reis because of his dual position as executor of the estate and employee of Marlborough and in Stamos' case because on January 1, 1971 he draws a contract for himself with Marlborough.
		In Stamos' case conflict of interest is not proved, but the judge found that there was a "self-serving breach of loyalty" and that he acted "improvidently and negligently in view of his own knowledge of Reis' self-serving and the entire case of events" (Seldes, 1996, p.275).
	www.artopos.org /artists/stamos/stamos-bio-en.html (3749 words)

	Rothko's shaky shares \| This is Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In Rothko's case, the prescription is for shares in a company called O2 Wireless Technology.
		The O2 tipped by Rothko is based in Georgia, USA, and according to the Barcelona brokers, the company is busily wiring apartment blocks so residents can use wi-fi to access the internet with no physical link to the phone system.
		Sadly, Rothko was not keen to talk to me. An anonymous spokesman said: 'Our senior partner, upon legal advice, has decided not to give a comment.
	www.thisismoney.co.uk /news/columnists/article.html?in_article_id=405312&in_page_id=19&in_author_id=5 (1056 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rothko responded as follows: “If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
		By 1950 Rothko had reduced the number of floating rectangles to two, three, or four and aligned them vertically against a colored ground, arriving at his signature style.
		In these paintings, color and structure are inseparable: the forms themselves consist of color alone, and their translucency establishes a layered depth that complements and vastly enriches the vertical architecture of the composition.
	www.physics.hku.hk /~tboyce/ap/topics/rothko/rothko_notes.doc (1447 words)

	Waking Rothko - Josh Spear
		I wanted to give a special nod to the ingenuity behind the campaign promoting Waking Rothko, a local Denver band clearly comprised of more than just stoner musicians– they’re musical strategists.
		They ask you to leave it on busses, in taxis, park benches, etc. Also, they produce all their own performances in undisclosed locations– only the first 500 people to sign up in each city are added to the list and invited.
		Clearly influenced by relationships and making music, give Waking Rothko a listen and support good people making good music by buying their EP on iTunes.
	www.joshspear.com /item/waking-rothko (252 words)

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