Rothko / Still
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“I told Rothko on several occasions that he should abandon such nonsense, forget this myth thing, which he was tying up with the Greeks, … and his fuzzy Bauhaus cultural associations. [He] was very happy to leave the rigor I set with the creative act for his steady manufacture of varieties of rectangles.” ‘Lifeline: Clyfford Still,’ Documentary.
I often think about what Still said and what Rothko was producing works like ‘Two Greens With Red Stripe’
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Mark Rothko,
No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe), 1964,
oil on canvas,
93” × 69” (236.2 cm × 175.3 cm),
#75414,
Format or original photography: high res TIF[/caption]