How Mark Rothko Unlocked the Emotional Power of Color
And as I gazed at the image I’d done, the next color leaped up at me. Orange. Not just a simple orange, but a flaming orange, a color that had both a strong vitality and also a premonition of decay. Like a fruit slowly rotting away. Creating this color was much more of a challenge than the green. It wasn’t simply a color, but had to be connected wi
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Taking note of these criticisms, the National Gallery in London began to experiment with picture placement in the mid-1800s. Instead of forcing visitors to crane their necks or crouch down to see the art on display, director Charles Eastlake began to hang the works at eye level. “This resulted in the gallery wall suddenly being emptier and its own
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A lot of international artists were there, including the American conceptual artist Tom Marioni, the Polish theater director Tadeusz Kantor, and also Hermann Nitsch and several other members of Wiener Aktionismus (Viennese Actionism), a group whose wild performances had made them notorious.
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Doug Wheeler, one of the founders of an artistic movement known as Light and Space,
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nothingness, that blankets and soothes rather than challenges or surprises, as powerful artwork is meant to do. Our capacity to be moved, or even to be interested and curious, is depleted.