Explain Mark Rothko paintings

[Zoot Allures]

I do not get it
Anyone could doit

Mark Rothko is known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art.


Black on maroon




black on grey



Yellow and Blue




Blue and Grey

 

[anon1]

His mom bought it.

 

[bazokajoe]

It's not worth 87 cents.

 

[Butler1000]

Honestly they are a tax haven for the rich. They trade various art workvia auction, in many cases just storing them.

They are worth that much because rich people want them to be.

 

[Robert Mugabe]

Still wondering about this one

Canadians Incensed by Purchase of U.S. Art : Art: Ottawa's National Gallery spent $1.5 million on a Barnett Newman abstract. The community protests that the money could have been spent in support of Canada. - Los Angeles Times

 

[Valcazar]

Still wondering about this one

Canadians Incensed by Purchase of U.S. Art : Art: Ottawa's National Gallery spent $1.5 million on a Barnett Newman abstract. The community protests that the money could have been spent in support of Canada. - Los Angeles Times



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It's a pretty cool effect.
But Butler's comment that it is worth that much because someone will pay that much is true.

 

[JackBurton]

I dunno if it’s worth 87 million but if you are ever in Houston, you should go to the Rothko Chapel. It’s a very quiet and sadly beautiful place when you realize he killed himself a year before it opened. He never got to see it completed.

It’s a very emotionally moving place. +1

 

[jalimon]

Darn I can do that!

87 million would be handy right now.