scholarly journals Mark Rothko: A Cross-Modal Approach

Elements ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Sarno

Synesthesia is not only highly instrumental but primary in our figurative thought and expression. The overlapping of sensory modalities can be used to elucidate complex layers of perception through a universal type of metaphor. In regards to abstract expressionism, a visual strategy that is vague and vat, referring to alternative modes of perception to comprehend painting proves extremely useful when exercised with discretion. The research I have conducted includes psychological experiments, studies on color, gravity, physics, acoustics, architecture and art criticism. By analyzing gravity, volume, pitch weight and saturation in music, I have identified them in abstract expressionist Mark Rothko's art. Although these components are mutable in Rothko's career, they are consistently present.

Palíndromo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Makowiecky ◽  
Luciana Marcelino

RESUMOEste artigo visa analisar e registrar a transição do pictórico ao digital no pensamento e na produção da artista Yara Guasque, professora do curso de Artes Visuais da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, pesquisadora em arte e tecnologia. Seu percurso artístico e intelectual parte de uma produção pictórica nos anos 80 e 90, centrada em pinturas monocromáticas de grandes dimensões com aplicação de têmpera sobre lona, na qual encontramos questões formais como cor e dimensão, que a aproximam dos artistas expressionistas abstratos da década de 50, especialmente com Mark Rothko, artista de maior aproximação. Transfere-se para o campo das artes digitais a partir dos anos 2000, cujos trabalhos tornam-se ainda mais experimentais e colaborativos. Percurso sintomático da atual mudança de paradigmas analógico/digital, o artigo busca analisar os atravessamentos do conceito de imersão tanto na produção pictórica quanto na produção digital realizada pela artista. Partindo das possibilidades imersivas do campo pictórico chega-se ao estudo da imersão em telepresença nos trabalhos experimentais realizados pelos grupos Perforum Desterro e Perforum São Paulo, coordenados, respectivamente, por Yara Guasque e Artur Matuck.Palavras ChaveImersão, pictórico, expressionismo abstrato, arte virtual, telepresença. AbstractThis article aims to analyze and record the transition from pictorial to digital in thought and production of the artist Yara Guasque, Professor of Visual Arts at the University of the State of Santa Catarina and researcher in art and technology. Her artistic career and intellectual moves from a pictorial production in the 80s and 90s, focused on large monochrome paintings by applying tempera on canvas, in which we find formal questions such as color and size, that approach her work of abstract expressionist artists of the decade 50, especially Mark Rothko, artist closer. Then she moved to the field of digital arts from the 2000s, whose works become even more experimental and collaborative. Her way is symptomatic of the current paradigm shift analog /digital, the article seeks to analyze the crossings of the concept of immersion in both pictorial and digital production performed by the artist. Starting from the immersive possibilities of pictorial field comes to the study of immersion in telepresence through experimental work carried out by groups Perforum Desterro and Perforum São Paulo, coordinated respectively by Yara Guasque and ArturMatuck.Key wordsImmersion, pictorial, abstract expressionism, art virtual, telepresence.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin Gómez ◽  
Eva Citlali Martínez

AbstractLaureate play “Red,” by John Logan, is a dramatic representation of biographical facts about and intellectual positions of the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko (1903–1970). With the tool of semiotic methodology named “Dramatology” it is possible to appreciate both text and staging – which go beyond a theatrical experience. “Red” leads the reader/spectator to question current human pragmatism and environmental insensitivity. Its main character wants to change the usual perspective of seeing and understanding pictures in order to achieve a more emotional and enriching art experience. The staging embraces certain tasks such as the construction of a large-format frame and the application of red paint on a canvas to stimulate the audience’s senses, breaking theatrical illusion. Ecocriticism allows us to describe the dramatic strategies of “Red” that raise audience awareness.


Elements ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Turova

Whether on oddly-shaped pillows, shrieking dolls, or basic coffee mugs, the emaciated protagonist with a gaping mouth and the swirling landscape of Edvard Munch's <em>The Scream </em>is one of today's most widespread images. Though Munch died just as abstract expressionism was being born, his emphasis on the highly personal and the unconscious through abstraction, brushwork, and intensely evocative colors link him closely to this important American art movement. Through the specific comparison of the oeuvre of Munch and the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, this essay will examine how and why the Norwegian painter became known as the "father of expressionism" in the history of art. <em>The Scream</em> is not central to this discussion, but instead will be looked at in conjunction with other early paintings and prints, such as <em>The Sick Child</em> and <em>The Kiss. </em>These works and others reveal Munch's artistics philosophy and technique and allow us to draw broader connections to future movements, neo-dadaism and expressionism among them.


ARTMargins ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Erber

Japanese art critics of the 1950s perceived the locus of a new materialist aesthetics in the new trends of informal abstraction emanating from the United States and France. This revealed a stark contrast with the idea of individual freedom that informed North-American discourse on Abstract Expressionism. Focusing on the writings of Miyakawa Atsushi, Haryū Ichirō, and Segi Shinichi, this article explores the political significance of the question of matter in Japanese postwar art criticism and indicates its importance for the subsequent development of avant-garde art in 1960s Japan.


Author(s):  
Maia Toteva

A leading post-World War II artist, Willem de Kooning painted in the vigorous style known as ‘‘gestural abstraction’’ or ‘‘action painting,’’ one of the two divisions of Abstract Expressionism. The artists associated with this Abstract Expressionism—Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, among others—emphasized the act of painting and used pronounced, often energetic, brushstrokes to convey expression. A preeminent figure of Abstract Expressionism, de Kooning occupied a distinct place within a group that rejected any critical labels. In 1955, de Kooning declared ‘‘Words and labels are very confusing. We need definitions. I’m not an Abstract Expressionist, but I express myself.’’ Although he experimented with various degrees of abstraction and epitomized the bold, improvisational brushstroke of Action Painting, de Kooning created a style that remained unique within the movement, with a deep commitment to the body and the human figure. Blending expressionist, cubist, and surrealist elements with technical skill, his paintings explored the ambiguous relations between figure and ground, abstraction and representation, and abstract versus overt figuration.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Nikolova ◽  
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The research is studies the spontaneity and expressiveness of children’s art and is based on the views of Mark Rothko. The pedagogical methods of the abstract expressionist, aimed at preserving the immediacy of the pictorial expression, are relevant and applicable today. The study offers a methodology for the development of color perception and color abilities of the preschool child, which fits into the context of Rothko’s pedagogical views.


Prospects ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 651-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Baigell

Clement Greenberg (1909–94) and Harold Rosenberg (1906–78) were the two art critics most closely associated with abstract expressionism in the 1940s and 1950s. Neither began their careers as art critics, however. By the mid-1980s, Rosenberg had published literary essays and poems in left-wing magazines, and Greenberg's articles and reviews first appeared at the end of that decade. During the 1940s, Greenberg began to write art criticism, and Rosenberg's essays began to appear frequently in the 1950s. By that time, both had become part of the group known informally as the New York Intellectuals, many of whom were Jewish and children of immigrant parents.Highly verbal, vocal, argumentative, and politically left of center, they often published in magazines such as Partisan Review, Commentary, and Dissent. Although both Greenberg and Rosenberg ultimately rejected the more dogmatic and authoritarian aspects of leftist politics, they nevertheless supported the idea that society must move forward, but not necessarily by political means. Greenberg thought that such momentum could be maintained by the cultural elite, and Rosenberg, influenced by surrealism's concerns for the creative process, believed that individuals who were independent minded and creative could do the same. Both encouraged artists to turn from the social concerns that engaged many during the 1930s to apolitical, self-searching themes that came to characterize the art of the 1940s. In effect, they, especially Rosenberg, lionized the artist as an heroic individual. In the words of one historian, both “worked to find a safe haven for radical progress within the realm of individualistic culture.” And both, among the most perspicacious critics of their time, discovered, encouraged, and/or supported artists who ultimately became major figures, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.


MRS Bulletin ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Lake

Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) are perhaps the best-known members of the abstract expressionist movement, a group of diverse artists from disparate backgrounds who radically transformed American art during the 1940s and into the 1950s. While the development and legacy of abstract expressionism remains a subject of considerable debate, what this diverse group of artists had in common was the belief that the materials, and the ways the artists applied them, are crucial to the expression of their art.


Author(s):  
Antonia Pocock

Frank Stella is a prominent American abstract artist whose deadpan aesthetic presaged Minimalism and Color Field painting. In contrast to the turbulent brushwork and improvisatory methods of Abstract Expressionism, Stella’s groundbreaking Black Paintings (1959) feature uniform surfaces and serial arrangements of forms. Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, Stella grounded his artistic education in non-objective painting. At the Phillips Academy, he studied with abstractionist Patrick Morgan, a pupil of Hans Hofmann. At Princeton University, he took studio courses with William Seitz, a scholar and practitioner of Abstract Expressionism; and Stephen Greene, an abstract painter and former student of Philip Guston. After graduating from college in 1958, Stella moved to New York City and produced gestural paintings of squares and stripes inspired by Mark Rothko and Jasper Johns. He soon abandoned painterly textures but retained the stripe as his signature motif. Stella’s work of the 1960s continued in the vein of his Black Paintings, but evolved to include metallic and Day-Glo pigments and shaped canvases. After 1970, his paintings assumed sculptural dimensions and incorporated expressionist brushwork and exuberant arabesques. Stella has continued to develop his exploratory practice to the present day.


2019 ◽  
pp. 131-170
Author(s):  
Ryan Dohoney

Chapter 3 chronicles the intersection of Feldman’s and Dominique de Menil’s spiritual aesthetics. It begins by reconstructing the conditions of their first meeting: the New York City Ballet’s 1966 performance of Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace, re-choreographed for George Balanchine. It goes on to document Feldman and de Menil’s 1967 collaboration on the gallery show Six Painters at the University of St. Thomas. Through her family’s patronage, as well as Dominique’s presence as self-installed head of the art department, the University became a major presenting organization offering avant-garde cultural events in the city. Six Painters featured paintings by Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Franz Kline. Feldman was also given a residency at the university in 1967, where he lectured on abstract expressionism and his own musical aesthetics as well as presented a concert of his music.


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