Mark Rothko, The power of art.
Simon Schama said
Rothko thought he could change the world… that art had the power to help people to recover their humanity.
“It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.”
― Mark Rothko, The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8322.Mark_R
I soon hope to revisit the Rothko collection at the Tate, London.In order to see close up his application of painterly technique, and layering of colours.To experience being drawn into his transcendent works.
The spiritual dimension to Rothkos work is somthing I would like to explore in more depth, his ability to create ‘aura’ and a sense of the sublime is mesmorising, abit like watching the sun rise or set on a horizon… natures elements… Out of human control this enables a sense of perspective we are like a grain of sand, in the grander scheme of things.
