#they don't capture the light idk! esp not some of the blue+greens. idk what it is
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my take, after having attended the big rothko retrospective in paris this week, is that a lot of rothko's blue paintings were kind of weak
#they don't capture the light idk! esp not some of the blue+greens. idk what it is#i've never been like. a person with super strong reflexive rothko responses but the full exhibit was a really intense great experience#some really good black/grays and black/reds#got all emotional about early 60s white and red#honestly i kind of fucking love his early period stuff-- esp after he stopped trying to do human figure surrealism but b4 color fields#the middle bit. hierarchical birds and so on#seagrams are pretty great ive seen them at the tate before still works#box opener#sadly none of the gray on gray untitleds were present so i was unable to conduct any firsthand scholarship#on the ongoing question of exactly which rothko has been photoshopped into that fake-ass 'pink on pink' one that circulates#every few years or so
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