Daily Rothko

I saw a post from them today and went to investigate. Even after I have blocked them they have written open letters to me often, they mention me nearly every day and make response posts to my posts.

They talk about "Us" (there is no us) and respond or post amendments reacting to my posts. They call us "Colleagues". Their blog is 100% more about me than it is about them or Mark Rothko for that matter.

They make notes like "we have 9 years to catch up" referring to how long I have been doing this (That's AI by the way, it's 11 years.)

In short this blog that has "Nothing to do with me" is about me, every fucking day. It's creepy to respond every day to someone who blocked you as if you were colleagues, not to mention this person I have a suspicion might be someone I helped with something in the past (not sure about this), and if so it's creepier. That person was French also and asked naive questions. Then they went through my entire tumblr asking if every person that was standing in front of a Rothko painting was me. Weird. When the blog emerged on tumblr, the person disappeared from social media.

This is just a narcissistic need for attention. They can post Rothko artwork like every other blog does and not involve me, but without me, they have no identity it seems. After this puffery about how I'm gatekeeping, they make essentially a reaction blog? He does these usually the same day! They do steal my scans meaning to or not and they made weird comparisons and wild assertions that make no sense, but then they don't know a lot about Mark Rothko, they just have a book but many elementary things escape them. Other blogs about Rothko avoid things they don't understand but this stalker, wants to make a mark.

He used to claim he didn't steal scans but has stolen many from me, four in the last ten days some from my instagram. These are my scans he cannot possibly have, but it's not surprising because he's also mimicking my posts from there and here. i guess he wants even more attention now.

My message to them since they are obviously going to read this even though they are blocked, is that i will never engage, answer or discuss or correct their misapprehensions.

Leave me out of this intellectual fantasy you have and fuck off, don't reply to me, don't involve me, don't take posts from me. Don't answer this post, rather do your blog, if you're so pure, and shut up about me.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢

1- Untitled, 1947-1948

Oil on canvas

127.6×109.9 cm

2-No. 1 (No. 18, 1948)

1948-1949

Oil on canvas

67 11/16 x 55 7/8 in.

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At the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Rothko in Florence exhibit Curated by Christopher Rothko and Elena Geuna

Mark Rothko The Drawings of 1962 Wove paper. all approx. 11 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (28.1 x 21.7 cm) Mixed media (Pencil, Ink, Watercolor and Wash) All Gifts of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

We don't see many late drawings from Rothko, there's one in '56 and some that are studies for mural projects, but for some reason, in 1962 we have this nice group of works on paper. What the intention of then was, no one knows for sure.

In 1962 Rothko was working on the Harvard Murals, but these drawings don't really resemble that work and only the 3rd drawing, in pencil. seems more like it might have been a sketch.

But it's still a little funny. The Seagram and Harvard mural sketches are cementing shapes that Rothko wasn't known the use. After all the stacked rectangle forms Rothko had painted by 1962, why sketch a single one out in pencil?

In seems likely to me that at least the 4 of them, in ink, were meant to stand alone, but we will probably never know.

I'm presenting them here as a set even though they are all up on the blog individually. For one thing it's nice to look at then this way, and for another these are recent scans from the NGA, which are different in small ways than what's already up. The previous scans are professional vetted scans but these new ones were probably done all at the same time and we sometimes see less yellow in the paper than we've seen before.

https://rothko.joonas.wtf/