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The Lonely Palette

Ep. 24 - Meditations on Mark Rothko

The Lonely Palette

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

4.8857 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Whether you think Mark Rothko is the portal to spiritual transcendence or emotional-ambulance-chasing bunk, let's take the necessary time to explore his work without feeling like our souls are at stake. See the images: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2017/11/20/episode-24-meditations-on-mark-rothko Music used: The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "A Simple Blur", "Thematic", "Cases to Rest", "Plate Grayscale", "Drone Thistle," "Sage the Hunter" Dar Williams, "Mark Rothko Song" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees" Support the show! www.patreon.com/lonelypalette. Our Year-End Listener Challenge is ON. Become a patr(e)on by December 15th and yours truly will produce an episode on "Dogs Playing Poker" because of course.

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Colors create

0:28.0

three-dimensional order

0:30.0

so you want you want them to work with you.

0:33.0

It's not in the nature of one color to be forwarded back, but the relationship between the colors creates an order.

0:41.0

And all of that's in your mind right

0:44.4

he draws you into trying to understand what visually is going on and that certainly

0:48.8

brings out a lot of emotional tension between the different colors.

0:56.0

It draws you in, because you sit with it, you feel those emotions

1:01.0

and that abstraction really makes you slow down.

1:07.0

I'm thinking about which color pulls me in more, whether it's the sort of the green that I thought was black

1:15.6

when I first looked at it. It does have a black under layer which you see at the edges.

1:21.4

And I always love the ragged edges that at first they appear to be very straight and then of course they're not there jagged again like life, you know.

1:32.0

But then I look at the red and the red pulls me in a

1:35.2

completely different way I can't even give words to it but I'm just drawn into

1:41.8

the center it's almost like looking at the sun.

1:44.0

Almost like when you kind of first, well for me, when you open your eyes up in the first part of the morning,

1:50.0

it makes it be dark out and you're just picking up hues that are at first

1:54.8

really indistinguishable and then as you kind of slowly come to you start to

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