Mark Rothko, Rothko in Black and White Part II
Black white photos from the Guggenheim retrospective
Untitled, Yellow over Purple 1956
Untitled, 1960
Untitled, Green, Red, Blue, 1955
Untitled, Violet and Yellow on Rose, 1954
No 8, 1952
While it can be popularly stated that Rothko is all about color, these striking and stark black and white photos of his color work from a 1970′s Guggenheim retrospective catalog, offer us a different look into Rothko’s use of light and shadow.
Part one can be found here
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Rinko Kawauchi, Ametsuchi series (2012-2013)
What inspired me was a dream I had one day. It was of scenery so amazingly beautiful that it made me almost scared. I woke up thinking how beautiful it was. I wasn’t sure if that location really existed, but if it did, I wanted to visit it. About six months later, I saw what I saw in my dream on TV. The location did exist. I found out that was I saw was called noyaki. It is the practice of protecting a grassland by burning a field. It has been done for about thirteen hundred years. Without noyaki, a field would turn into woods. Beautiful grassland cannot be maintained without burning the field once a year. What amazes me is that it doesn’t happen naturally but is maintained by human intervention. I am very much interested in the flow and cycle of human practices. It is not only the theme for Ametsuchi but also a foundation of all my work.
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