#Recipe for a work of art

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Mark Rothko’s painting No.3/No.13, 1949, is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. The image above is a copy of it, painted on a garage door in Brooklyn.

From the museum about the work-

No. 3/No. 13 is an early example of a compositional structure that Rothko would continue to explore for more than two decades. Narrowly separated blocks of color hover against a colored ground. Their edges are soft and irregular, so that when Rothko used closely related tones the blocks sometimes seem barely to emerge from the ground. The green bar in No. 3/No. 13, on the other hand, appears to vibrate against the orange around it, creating an optical flicker. In fact, the canvas is full of gentle movement, as blocks emerge and recede and surfaces seem to breathe. Just as the edges tend to fade and blur, the colors are never completely flat, and the faint unevenness in their intensity reveals the artist’s exploration of the technique of scumbling: by planting bold colors on top of a haze of translucent layers of paint, he created ambiguity, a shifting between solidity and impalpable depth.

The sense of boundlessness in Rothko’s paintings has been related to the aesthetics of the sublime, an implicit or explicit concern of a number of his fellow painters in the New York School. The remarkable color in his paintings was for him only a means to a larger end: “I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom,” he said. “If you…are moved only by…color relationships, then you miss the point.”

His page on Wikipedia quotes his “recipe for a work of art- its ingredients- how to make it- the formula” from a lecture he gave at Pratt Institute in 1958-

There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality … Tragic art, romantic art, etc., deals with the knowledge of death.

Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship with things that exist.

Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.

Irony, This is a modern ingredient—the self-effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.

Wit and play … for the human element.

The ephemeral and chance … for the human element.

Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

“I measure these ingredients very carefully when I paint a picture. It is always the form that follows these elements and the picture results from the proportions of these elements.”

[freelanceplatypus]

Dungeon Meshi modern au where both Laois and Falin are food vloggers. Laois is always travelling to remote areas and cultures to try the most "extreme" foods and bring them to light. He's known as the guy who will drink blood and slam a still wriggling bug just to comment on it's nutty flavor. Meanwhile Falin is visiting long-standing eateries and sharing the stories behind local cuisine.

Nobody actually puts together they're siblings (in part due to wildly different viewerbases) until Falin in one video mentions how she enjoys eating insects and the comment section is full of folks asking her to "collab with the bug guy". Her very next video is her and Laois smiling infront of a mukbang style platter of insects and she introduces him as her brother.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

obviously hanguang-jun would wear sports bras…. right?

Wei Wuxian failed his perception and insight check rolls.

[doodlboy]

Lineart commission for @yourboyhack ! <3

[batscrem]

POV: the fate of the world hinges on your autistic ass kicking your grandfather down the stairs but you constantly get beaten up before you even get to the top of said stairs

[krowbby]

For the end of zinetober and last day of @quezify ‘s eggtober I made a zine of my favorite egg recipe! Full zine and food pics under the cut (along with the scan of the zine so you can print your own!)

I even went to a zine fest and traded it with some folks! It was super super fun :)

Here’s the instructions! Alt text is on all photos.

Now for some glamour shots of one I made yesterday:

And finally, the scan! If you want your own copy of the zine, just print this on a normal piece of paper and look up how to fold a zine :) Enjoy!

[pallotdip]

wa POW! 💪💥 hey hey hey!!!

from 3/20/24 - 4/20/24, preorders for Vol. 2 of @ygocookbookzine are now OPEN!! if you’re in the UK or anywhere that doesn’t support bigcartel, it’s over on etsy too! >:D

if you like cooking, or yugioh, or super rad and cool artists, writers, and cooks, come on over and check it out!

here’s just a liiiiitle peek into what i drew for the zine! 🫣

[compasspyxis]

Uniform redesign i was bored after losing motivation on the last drawing.

Also some other hc like the robes are made out of rayon or smth lightweight n cheap idk

[wizardo-yo]

a bunch of work later and we've got a working crafting system yeehaw

[voidimp]

ummm ok u can have kind of spicy flavor sketch. as a treat

(its hard to tell but the thumb is pressing a pill down)

[theramblingsofadork]

Time for another AU doodle!!

Cello and Starline are the head scientists of the group. While they may have explosive debates and can sometimes barely tolerate each other’s presence, when they’re in sync, they’re a devastating duo.

Their shared intellectual prowess can easily confuse anyone who dares challenge them on a subject. ..Just so long as they don’t end up getting into their own argument halfway through. 🤣

[amememightywarrior]

happy choctoberfest (in january) (from haurchefant)

[arttsuka]

It's not that I don't believe ai could become advanced enough to actually help us, it's that I have about zero (0) faith in humanity to use it ethically (and so far I'm proven right)

[tasiaadams18art]

Lemon cookies with Olive oil.

[art-from-the-pantry]

I am insanely in Love with this drawing. Tumblr likes to botch the resolution tho, so if you want to see it in its full glory please click it (or open it in another tab, that also works)