there are 2 people that i believe are potentially the most overrated people in the world. the first one is mark rothko. he highlights everything i find wrong with art, as he is considered a modern master for painting things like this.
and what rothko did to art, mies van der rohe did to architecture. while he has made some really cool furniture and a few cool buildings, he made it not just okay, but trendy to make all our buildings look like this.
thanks guys...
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"A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it out into the world. How often it must be permanently impaired by the eyes of the vulgar and the cruelty of the impotent who would extend the affliction universally!”
— Mark Rothko
"only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions . . . The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationship, then you miss the point."
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