ROTHKO WALL

Project: the Melbourne Clinic; Art Therapy

Inspiration: Mark Rothko (1903-1970).

"I insist upon the equal existence of the world engendered in the mind and the world engendered by God outside of it... I quarrel with surrealists and abstract art only as one quarrels with his father and mother; recognising the inevitability and function of my roots, but insistent upon my dissent; I, being both they, and an integral completely independent of them."

Mark Rothko circa 1943 when he shifted away from Surrealism

Markus Rothkowicz (later, Mark Rothko) is known for presenting multiple paintings in rows so that the colours become a rich array of beacons of light:

"colour expresses basic human emotions such as tragedy, ecstasy, doom, anger, joy...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 colour relationships, then you miss the point."

Mark Rothko