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@jen_jen wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20321921
A painting by abstract artist Mark Rothko has fetched $75.1 million (£47.2m) at an auction in New York.
Rothko’s No 1 (Royal Red and Blue), described by Sotheby’s as “a seminal, large-scale masterpiece”, was the subject of a heated bidding war.
What do you think?
I thought maybe I don’t get it…. most abstract paintings have a hidden message or a deep meaning…..I searched for one online …. all I could find was……”Blocks of Colour” made me laugh as I have just picked up some dulux paint colour charts from B&Q… similar :D
Has anyone here actually sat in front of a Rothko ?
I’m given to understand that there is something about his later art that invokes some very primitive emotions, and which strikes at the very heart of creative meaning. He only produced these kind of large block works after a long and varied career.
Surely criticism should be directed at the buyer and not the long-dead artist ?
Or does everyone in this place believe in throwing out babies with bathwaters ?
oi!!!
Rothko stole this from my lad..my boy painted this when he was 7, and it went missing…I saw some suspicious guy hanging around the school, disguised as a beatnik…
well . . . . . just playing devil’s advocado really,
in an obvious salad of all-agreeing message board blandless.that’s all . . . . .
@toybulldog wrote:
Has anyone here actually sat in front of a Rothko ?
I’m given to understand that there is something about his later art that invokes some very primitive emotions, and which strikes at the very heart of creative meaning. He only produced these kind of large block works after a long and varied career.
Surely criticism should be directed at the buyer and not the long-dead artist ?
Or does everyone in this place believe in throwing out babies with bathwaters ?
The thread is about this one piece and the sum it fetched at auction, not about the artist and his work.
Art is subjective, what resonates with one person will leave another person cold…this particular piece leaves me cold and the amount paid for it staggers me. However I’m sure the buyer will be happy with his purchase…maybe he has a large damp patch or a bad plastering job on a wall that needs concealing? Or maybe a flipping big safe? Who knows…I do wonder what the artists would have made of their works selling for such huge sums of money though…
@toybulldog wrote:
Surely criticism should be directed at the buyer and not the long-dead artist ?
I really need to highlight this bit for jen
@toybulldog wrote:
@toybulldog wrote:
Surely criticism should be directed at the buyer and not the long-dead artist ?
I really need to highlight this bit for jen
Perhaps you could highlight where anyone criticised the long-dead artist? This one piece of his work, yes, the artist, no.
Is the missus out tonight?
@jen_jen wrote:
@toybulldog wrote:
@toybulldog wrote:
Surely criticism should be directed at the buyer and not the long-dead artist ?
I really need to highlight this bit for jen
Perhaps you could highlight where anyone criticised the long-dead artist? This one piece of his work, yes, the artist, no.
Is the missus out tonight?
Toydogboy has a missus?
@terry wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
@toybulldog wrote:
@toybulldog wrote:
Surely criticism should be directed at the buyer and not the long-dead artist ?
I really need to highlight this bit for jen
Perhaps you could highlight where anyone criticised the long-dead artist? This one piece of his work, yes, the artist, no.
Is the missus out tonight?
Toydogboy has a missus?
Yes, and she’s a lovely lady and one of the nicest chatters.
@jen_jen wrote:
@toybulldog wrote:
@toybulldog wrote:
Surely criticism should be directed at the buyer and not the long-dead artist ?
I really need to highlight this bit for jen
Perhaps you could highlight where anyone criticised the long-dead artist? This one piece of his work, yes, the artist, no.
Is the missus out tonight?
you’re criticising the artist’s work but not the artist ?
while not engaging in a personal attack ?really, and . . . . erm, . . . really ??
shame on you !
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