#rothko

Researching artists color combinations starting with mark Rothko

Thank you for running your blog, as I've been watching your posts over the last while I've become fascinated with Rothko. Your editorials on extra details about the pieces themselves are always interesting.

I've been doing my own art inspired by Rothko's color fields, to study color and found that it's really quite complicated to get them right, which makes each Rothko you put on my dash all the more impressive.

Thanks for inspiring me, and have a lovely day.

What a thoughtful note and thank you so much.

It is hard to get color just right, but then again if you find something personal to do with it, I'm sure it will be very rewarding for you.

I just bought Louis Vuitton’s book about Mark Rothko. I truly wanted it because I’ve heard again and again how his paintings are remarkable and so impressive when seen in real life. Pictures of it on the internet can’t be compared. This is what feels the closest to seeing the real thing, for now.

I'm so glad you got to see some and spend some time with them.

Every day we encounter Rothko hating, sometimes just a few people, sometimes a lot of people. These people are convinced that it's some kind of mass hysteria or that it's just pretentious people trying to be cool. But the truth is that all the time people just see artwork and like it because it moves them, or strikes a chord of some kind.

I understand why people don't like the coercive analysis of the art market or the sometimes flowery speech of critics, but they're going to have to get used to the fact that people discover these things every day that enrich their lives and naysayers can't wish that feeling away.

I hope you have many more of these experiences and thanks for writing.

PS

These?

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢

In his 1458 First Avenue studio, New York, 1964

📸 Dan Budnik

Estate of Dan Budnik 2026 All Rights Reserved

I've cropped out the person's name who posted this because it's no slight on them that they did. It's the most popular picture of Rothko on the Internet. However, there is no color version of this photograph there are only many different Photoshop versions of the same colorized photograph. This painting is orange not red.

It would be great to stop posting this mangled photo

Here's the original