eCognoscente - Art and Theatre - Rothko and Seeing Red!

ecognoscente.com — Rothko’s paintings recall Michelangelo’s blocked windows, lovely in their intensity of color and simplicity, the window-like shapes of color-on-color, blacks and reds that perhaps recall the reds of the houses of Pompeii and the color scheme he saw at the Villa of the Mysteries. He also is known to have been fascinated by Matisse’s The Red Apr 15, 2010 View in Crawl 4