Mark Rothko, The Black and the White, 1956

Oil on canvas

Collection Mr and Mrs Frank Stanton, MOMA

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

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For seemingly no reason!

I do have a backup I don't post on and foolishly, if this blog is deleted, I will resume there.

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Mark Rothko, No. 2, 1962

Oil on canvas

81x76 inches

Smart Museum

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ ARS NY

Mark Rothko, Agitation of the Archaic, 1944

Oil on canvas, Gift of the Mark Rothko Foundation

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), Courtesy of The Mark Rothko Foundation

How are you doing? I hope good^^ I still love all this work you put in, and I hope the big database project thrives! I actually wanted to ask something related to that: Do you know if there is a place where you can buy Rothko prints online? I'd love something for my office space... Thanks for your help! Have a good day~

McGaw Graphics is the legal place that does it. Pretty much everything else is not legal and I can't recommend them. I am sure there are good non-legit prints but I just have no way of knowing.

Museums with also have posters from retrospectives they have done. Some of those can be nice, so if you have a local ,museum that has a Rothko or two you might try there as well.

Thanks for your kind words and for writing.

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Green, Blue, Green on Blue), 1968

Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Estate of Charles Evans 

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), Courtesy of The Mark Rothko Foundation

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969

Acrylic on paper

© Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / ARS

Mark Rothko, Untitled, No 8, 1964

One of the Black Form Paintings

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / ARS, New York

NGA dc

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1951

Rothko Museum, Latvia

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / ARS, New York

New scan

Mark Rothko, No. 21 (Untitled), 1949

oil and mixed media on canvas, 94 x 53 3/8 inches

Menil Collection

© 2024 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS)

what is it about Rothko (with the intention of uncovering some deep, inaccessible part of my being through your answer)

It's hard to write about art. It becomes a lot of assembling and dismantling adjectives, storing anecdotes and often, because of why you're writing about it, some gentle coercion to get someone to like something that you do. It's a genuine impulse but a hapless task.

I love lots of artists and Rothko is one. However, I never intended to get so involved in him, I just thought he was the right artist for a once a day mediation. Rothko is an ecumenical painter. He wants everyone to look. He names nothing in his paintings. He offers no intellectual distractions or influences. He literally would not have it any other way. Few artists invite that kind of scrutiny and come back swinging, but Rothko measures up pretty well.

I went to the works on paper show a few times. The group on display were punchy as hell. They looked just painted. It didn't look like paper, it hardly looked like paint. It reminded me that I look at Rothko paintings every single day and I still find them full of new things to excite me. Maybe I'm a sucker.

I imagine every one of us wishes we could show our favorite things and magically have them fall on everyone like love, but I don't think anything is for everyone. Like Proust, I do recommend that everyone tries a little Rothko now and then to see if you have lined up with it. In Rothko one thing hides another. And the other can be an endless sea.

Mark Rothko, Untitled,1967-1968

 Oil on paper mounted on canvas 59.7 x 45.1 cm

© Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / ARS

Mark Rothko, Untitled, c. 1943 watercolor on paper

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / ARS, New York

Mark Rothko, Untitled,  Acrylic on Paper, 1968

© Kate Rothko-Prizel & Christopher Rothko

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Black on Red), 1968 

acrylic on paper mounted on Masonite,  panel: 24 1/16 x 18 3/16 in.; 61.1188 x 46.1963 cm

Smith College

© Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / ARS, New York

I think it's odd that people still think there is some kind of Rothko debate where they have to weigh in on him being a "Real Artist".

In reality there's no more debate about Rothko than any other artist. It's just he's so famous, I guess it becomes some kind of emblematic crusade. Arguments cannot be had about people's taste, that is just that, but when you wade into something bigger, people seem to lack the understanding of what they are actually saying.

Today I read someone on tumblr saying that they were not going to get on the bandwagon of Rothko being a good and skilled artist. That bandwagon has been around for 75 years.

you ever heard Stendhal Syndrome by Idles? always makes me think of you (and also the post from that person who knocked one out to a Rothko painting during a gas leak)

Haha, I had not but I have now!