Category: Art and Artists

Mark Rothko: The Essence of Color

Mark Rothko’s works are some of the great achievements of how I think of  “abstract expressionism”.  If we think literally about these two terms in artistic terms we could define them as something like: Abstract = distilling, distorting, removing references to living things or objects. Highlighting the materials, shapes, colors

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Stuart Davis: “Hot Stillscape for Six Colors”

Stuart Davis Stuart Davis once remarked that he liked to paint to jazz, and Earl Hines was among his favorites. Once when he was painting to Hines, he realized he had been painting to the jazz improvisation! Here is an opportunity to reverse and repeat that exercise: to ‘paint music’

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