Word: rothko
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...holy man is depicted merging with the divine essence through yoga. Created by a Rajasthani artist named Bulaki, it jives uncannily with a contemporary aesthetic. The paint - real gold - hums with a depth and intensity that curator Richard Blurton compares to the work of 20th century abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko: "People today understand that a single panel of wonderful color can be thrilling." (Read Mark Rothko: Art of Darkness...
...certain age," says Blurton, smiling, "have described them as 'trippy.'" Those eager to trance out amid the swirls of gold, gray and pink can sit and do so, as the curators have created a small, triangular, chapel-like space with the paintings, a knowing nod to the Rothko Chapel, the contemplation space-cum-museum in Houston created in 1971 with 14 of the artist's paintings...
...everyone sees the Rothko comparison as a compliment. A Hindustan Times column sniffed that it is a patronizing "reflex of lost Empire" to praise ancient Indian painters through the works of modern Western ones. "The British Museum is a robber's cave and testimonial to the 'engulf and devour' Western worldview that Asia and Africa know intimately to their considerable cost," the column continued. True, the British Museum and Kew Gardens were founded in the 1750s, when Britain bestrode the world. But in a year when a Bollywood-style movie triumphed at the Oscars, when pundits have taken to warning...
...some that may never deteriorate, so there is a lot of variety there but you try to do as well as an institution can.”Currently, the Straus Center is making groundbreaking progress, using new techniques to repair five pieces from a mural cycle sent by Mark Rothko to Harvard in the 1960s. The murals, which were one of only three made, were displayed for almost a quarter of a century in the penthouse of the Holyoke Center. But overexposure to sun on this light-sensitive paint caused the mural’s color to dramatically change?...
...fetched analogy between Wyeth and Obama, but I will say that I am heartened by that one electoral vote. On Nov. 4, my hometown and I looked at America and picked Obama to lead it. Some might see America as a Wyeth painting, some might see it as Rothko, but in the end we all came to the same conclusion. Calling Wyeth “America’s painter” is a stretch, but whether his critics would agree or not, I am willing to grant him common footing with the most outré expressionist...