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Mark Rothko

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« Une peinture n’est pas la repre sentation d’une expe rience. C’est l’expe rience me me. »
Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko, apre s son installation aux E tats-Unis, commence a peindre au de but des anne es 1930. Si ses œuvres figuratives du de but sont marque es par l’influence de la mythologie antique et du surre alisme, il s’oriente de s les anne es 1940 vers une esthe tique abstraite avec sa se rie des Multiformes, puis celle des Classiques et des Black and Grays.
Ses couleurs sature es aux formes flottantes et expansives invitent a une expe rience sensible, tactile, laissant au spectateur sa part de cre ation dans l’œuvre. Cette vision du peintre aspire a un langage universel s’adressant a tous, loin de l’intellectualisation et des processus techniques de re alisation.
Derrie re un apparent myste re et un caracte re insaisissable empreints de spiritualite , ses toiles convient par leur impact e motionnel a interroger l’horizon de nos origines, de notre destine e, de notre existentialite .
« Les œuvres de Rothko sont des tableaux vivants ! C’est un art habite par l’observateur, anime et constamment revivifie par des vivants. » (Christopher Rothko)

307 pages, Hardcover

First published October 18, 2023

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Suzanne Page

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Suzanne Page is artistic director at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.

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April 8, 2024
I so wished I could visit this exhibit in Paris. This comprehensive catalogue is the next best thing. I am so grateful to my son Gabe who gave it to me as a birthday present when we visited San Francisco MOMA together on my bday weekend. I have savored for the past month the reading and viewing of the art work depicted in this catalogue which includes essays by the author’s son and by other experts who recount details of Rothko’s life and analyze his art. The influence of Milton Avery was mentioned multiple times and that was a new and interesting fact I learned, as was Rothko’s dismissive attitude toward those who viewed his art as examinations of color. He saw his paintings as a means for the viewer to experience the world, and he was influenced by myth and by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche not so much by experimenting with color. I learned a lot about Rothko and his technique and view of his artwork. Such a great book, I will treasure it for years to come.
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November 17, 2024
Magnifique ouvrage sur le travail de Rothko dès le début de son travail, suite à la rétrospective de l'artiste à la Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Le dernier étage, soit les horizons gris et noir m'ont fait pensées aux oeuvres de Benjamin Valode.

Bonsoir.

Thank you, Next.
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