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Rothko for your current weather conditions
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- What he kept was light, color, and a feeling the work was supposed to give the person standing in front of it — joy, ecstasy, doom, tragedy.
- He asked galleries to hang the paintings low, dim the lights, and let people sit with them.
What he kept was light, color, and a feeling the work was supposed to give the person standing in front of it — joy, ecstasy, doom, tragedy. He arranged two or three soft-edged rectangles on a field and worked the surface until the colors seemed to hold their own weather inside the canvas.
He asked galleries to hang the paintings low, dim the lights, and let people sit with them. The painting was supposed to do something — not just be looked at.
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