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On a visit to DC a few years back, I finally got an opportunity to view Rothko's work in the National Gallery of Art. I had no idea what to expect, but 5 seconds after walking into that room, filled with Rothko's paintings, I can truly say, for the first time in my life I was awe-struck! A wonderful experience never to be forgotten.

I never was one for art until I saw his art piece: 210 211 Orange. It’s simple at first glance, but it’s more of the time this was made; that art can be spiritual. The lack of complexity skewed down to simple colors and square-like shapes beckons you to sit down and just look. Granted we live in a faster world, but Rothkos make me want to stop running through life and instead sit down and just think. This particular art piece looked a lot like a window eclipsing a evening descending sunrise. Almost as if a tease or hint towards something just an arms stretch away.

The comments are great- when you put it out there that someone is moved to tears by Rothko, then some precious asshole has to say they were, as if they hold some ability to devine deeper meaning in a piece of art- that has none. This is what I mean, if you cried looking at this, you are not deep- you're a zombie.

Ughh. Stop. Why the fuck does everybody feel the need to reiterate something Rothko said himself, that he witnessed people being moved to tears by his work- when it never fucking happened. And then some asshole hears this in some other video- and it's repeated ad fucking nausea until it becomes a truth- simply from repetition ? I loathe abstract expressionism. That, being said, I don't mind Rothko's- his stuff is alright. But let's stop acting like he's the greatest abstract painter ever or that his works are monuments to emotion- which you have to really be delusory to feel. They look nice, they're interesting, that's it. No big mystery in them, no hidden meanings, just some ok looking art. The moved to tearsbullshit makes me want to fucking puke, b/c I know it's not true and him recounted it= never fucking happened. Abstract Art is a way for someone w/o much painting skill to feel like they are an artist= when they are not, THAT's what Ab Expressis.

I was working at The Walker Art Center as a security guard during a Rothko show back in the 1980's. I had not experienced a lot of abstract art prior to this and was just learning to appreciate it. I stood in front of a Rothko one day and tried to understand what I was supposed to "get" out of this simple arrangement of blurry rectangles. Eventually I found myself absorbed into the pure mood of the colors and became aware of how they seemed to go on layer after layer. A learned a lot about how to experience certain kinds of work that day.

Great Artist that broke on thru! I would love to own one!! RIP SWEET PRINCE 🥀

A hack w/ a sourpuss attitude. Basic no-frills "street art" . Right Place / right time / right Warhol support. End of story.

Smart move from the CIA.

Kant says that there is no way of us knowing things in themseleves as they are, and we can only know things how they represent themselves to us through our senses and using theese inputs we create concepts with the help of our imaginations. I think that Rothko somehow achieved to convey things as they truly are without using any forms, symbols or figures. Thats why his work transcends the dimension that we are in.

Great artists are not always adorable human beings. No matter what medium they work in - art, music, literature, theater, whatever. So what. They live for their art and rightly so. Those who take up with them should realize this. You either take them on their own terms and quit whining or forget it. Go marry an insurance salesman.

Modigliani.

Picasso is the most over-rated artist of all time.

He also nursed a terminal girlfriend with cancer to death! It's trendy to call him mysoginist and forget how fabulous a painter he was! I notice nobody knocks Georgia O Keefe for living alone in the desert relinquishing relationships so she can concentrate on her artwork! They'll never forgive Picasso for being a workaholic something admirable in others who strive for excellence! How much is jealousy envy and desire to be as famous as him! Plus he's first to admit Velasquez was probably the greatest of all time and he couldn't paint like him until his 70's and his exhibition in UNSW art gallery was absolutely brilliant and overwhelming!

CIA is all over RUclips.

The painting he done at 14 of the girl kneeling at the altar I was most impressed by

If a Martian came down and tried to figure out what the word "genius" means, they might very well conclude that it's another word for "asshole."

Just goes to show in the end he was just a dickhead ...

Once you see the naked hatred of women in his paintings...

Thx for sharing his a genius and talented.🙌🏻🙌🏻

I like Picasso even better now. What a great video. Oh to be a genius womanizer

That's amazing 😂😂😂

So many angles on Picasso in this one short video. I learned a lot. Appreciate that you chose to end it by talking about his abusive relationships. No amount of genius can excuse the way he treated people

He lived his art. No?

You say Rothko died with 800 unsold paintings. How many did he sell during his lifetime? Does anyone know?

Lucky for him, he was a well off white guy so he could get away with this and earn a lot of money.

Picasso is the Mask behind his paintings. Fucking brilliant

Very educational video… but Rothko?? eye rollllllllll

I always feel like I'm inside of it, I live in a rural area with plenty of fields and farms that I walk through and sometimes when the light hits the Earth at a specific point at a specific moment in time I gain this experience that can be ecstatic or nerve wracking, the clue is in the name "colour field". I once had to walk through a pitch black field with my ex both drunk and steadying eachother and it wasn't like the typical moment in time that you drink in but rather be swallowed up by and that's how his black and grey painting makes me feel. The tragedy is that these moments we have with Rothko, ourselves and loved ones are all fleeting. That's just me though, think for yourself and you'll find something that touches your heart as well. Also watch "Red" that play is breathtaking and I find is a good start for beginners on how to best interpret one of his works.

Your claim of “obvious” African mask influence likely means you know very little about Picasso’s vast collection of European,Asian and pre-Columbian mask..

14:11 'He said this (regarding African art and masks) after visiting the Trocadero Museum "To examine these masks; all those magical objects people had created with a magical purpose, to serve as intermediaries to them and the hostile forces that surrounded them, thereby trying to overcome their fears, leaving them color and shape and then I understood what painting really meant. it is not an aesthetic process. It is a form of magic that stands between us and a hostile universe. A means of taking power. Imposing a form on our terrors as well as our wishes. The day I understood that, the day I found my way. "'

Im the greatest living artiste'

That last part...wow...😮

One of his girlfriends commited suicide. I wonder why. Also he left one woman Dora after nine years unexpectedly for another woman. Dora said all his paintings of her were lies. His ex wife Francoise gilot had to leave because he was very abusive. He tried to ruin her career after she left him. She was an artist as well and had painted since five years old and was highly educated. She painted till the day she died at 101 just recently. She is an accomplisged painter yet she was blacklisted at the time for leaving picasso. She wrote a book years after she left him depicting her time with him. He was not a good person.

Georges Braque and Picasso invented cubism. It was a team effort. Picasso just became more popular. Braque also invented fauvism.

This is a really excellent video. Thank you.

Picasso was an illustrator--that was his original orientation--not a fine artist. So were Rubens, Delacroix and Goya. It's obvious, if you just use your eyes. Also, Picasso invented neither collage nor cubism.

You have to see him as an illustrator and a cartoonist first! Not a Painter. The first faker in atrt.

I have seen the Rothko paintings at Tate Modern. I had just spoken to a friend and mentioned that we were going there and he raved over the Rothko's and how they had been set up. So I went and looked. And nothing. No response. Dead paint in a dead space. But to say that I am not "equipped" to understand this "great art" isn't just arrogant. It goes way beyond that. It us not far off claiming to be simply a better human being than me. Years ago I attended a hypnotism show which started with a selection process. We were all told to interlink our fingers but that when we were told to separate our hands some would find that their hands were stuck. And so it happened. But not to me. The simple process of telling people it might happen was enough to make it happen. But there was no magic. No conspiracy theory. It was just the power of suggestion. Which is quite scary when you think about it. So back to the Rothko paintings. You are in a prestigious art gallery. There is an entire room set aside for one series of paintings by one artist. No other artist has anything like this in the gallery. Not even Picasso or Dali. The lighting is low and moody. The ceiling is lower than the surrounding space. There is a subdued almost oppressive atmosphere. In bevioural terms you are being "primed" just as the hypnotists audience were. With the set up Tate Modern has created you could pin Walkers crisp packets to the wall and some people would cry over them. So if you really want to experience a Rothko remove the priming. Take it out of the gallery, put it in direct sunlight, ideally be shown it without knowing who the artist was or perhaps more realistically be told that it is by a different unknown artist. Now what do you make of it? Rothko created the Tate Modern works as a deliberate insult to the people who commissioned them and eventually returned his fee so that he could reclaim the paintings. The whole process was a huge F you to the establishment but it is now the same art establishment who laud his talent. As Alanis might (incorrectly) say "isn't it ironic"?

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Wretched video. Everything wrong with aesthetics-the fundamental attribution error-from a RUclipsr clearly only interested in views.

The narrator is far more astute than Pablo could ever be.

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Really great peice thank you for sharing...

I think Picasso was a bit of a one trick pony style wise, but it was nonetheless visually pleasing. He was more than his paintings though and I don’t begrudge his success. The element of promotion and knowing what to be influenced by is a huge talent in itself.

Thanks for this vid I like Picasso s art it’s funny today in are time it seems folks are more closed minded on what art is with computers and a i it seems To have stopped exploration, it’s just my opinion realism is not the end all and thing for all seasons

Good information though none of it new. The only ‘conspiracy’ in art seems to be people’s tendency to think it’s some ethereal sanctified activity portraying nothing but glorified beauty. Art reflects the human psyche in all its forms and permutations many of which are far from innocent cherubs floating in fluffy clouds sprinkling rose petals and heavenly fairy dust. Beauty - and art - is in the eye of the beholder.

He pilfered African art, wholesale- and shamelessly. Like Picasso himself said: "Good artists borrow, great artists steal".

You truely missed out watching this video ! It explained, shared great info I didn't know prior, n partially glorified him n his genius, even when he was warped....a true master of his art n world's !!!❤