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Well I think it's hard to say what his artistic mindset was but maybe we can assume a few things.

Rothko abandoned drawing basically so there's no recognizable figures, so for lack of a better way of putting it, he is painting color as spiritual expression.

And I think that's the important part of the mindset that Rothko, and some of his contemporaries, felt. Like they were painting the same ideas that are in every painting. As Rothko said "tragedy ecstasy doom ," but abstracted, so instead of painting the characters of history or the Bible you're expressing the feelings you have in a more stripped down way. Unencumbered, perhaps.

When you go into doing something really abstract I think it's important not to have fear about it. Fear makes people want to resort to old formats but I think maybe the lesson is let yourself go and there's nothing wrong with seeing what happens, that's what all artists really do. Pollock didn't really consider de Kooning to be an abstract painter purely, he said "Bill is a French painter," meaning that he does something and then covers it up. And that concealment is a little bit different than being a pure abstract artist (I've always loved this distinction by the way.)

In terms of the other stuff, remember that Rothko painted with a base coat of glue and pigment and then applied a lot of thin layers of color to the painting after that was dry. This translucency is really key to the way that his paintings have weight. Sometimes there's very furious brush work, as I have mentioned, underneath the surface but it's not the first thing you see. So this idea of floating objects, and soft edges and many translucent layers, technique-wise is maybe something to think about if you want to get some of that feeling. Think of colors as advancing and receding depending on the color and also how you paint it.

Like, I remember when Heart of Thorns first came out but that's not too crazy

Do y'all remember profession trainers? And skill and trait points instead of hero points?

Do y'all remember when you needed to have an item with the skin to transmute another item before skins were an account-wide unlock?