more on late rothko:
"But here I have to concede that this approach, too, is valid. Particularly in the very last years of Rothko's life he seems to have been moving very much in this direction. In a series of paintings in acrylic from 1969 consisting of parallel bands of black over gray paint, the brushwork is so loose and drippy that at first I assumed they must be unfinished. But then you notice that the artist has left all four edges of the canvas white, an effect that both undermines any Illusion of spatial depth and brings the black and gray paint even closer to the picture plane."
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"But here I have to concede that this approach, too, is valid. Particularly in the very last years of Rothko's life he seems to have been moving very much in this direction. In a series of paintings in acrylic from 1969 consisting of parallel bands of black over gray paint, the brushwork is so loose and drippy that at first I assumed they must be unfinished. But then you notice that the artist has left all four edges of the canvas white, an effect that both undermines any Illusion of spatial depth and brings the black and gray paint even closer to the picture plane."
- bill 10-31-2008 2:38 pm