2003 After Mark Rothko, "Saffron, 1957" Poster

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An excellent poster after oil on canvas painting "Saffron, 1957" by Mark Rothko. Printed on high quality paper. Publisher copy … Read more An excellent poster after oil on canvas painting "Saffron, 1957" by Mark Rothko. Printed on high quality paper. Publisher copy on back. Detailed. Rich colors. Excellent condition - minimal edge wear, never framed.

Overall 11.25"W x 14.5"H
Image 9.95"W x 12.95"H

Mark Rothko belongs to the generation of American Artists who completely revolutionized the essence and design of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style rooted in the active relationship of the observer to the painting, embodied the radical vision of a renaissance in painting. Rothko characterizes this relationship as "a consummated experience between picture and onlooker". His colour formations indeed draw the observer into a space filled with an inner light. Rothko always resisted attempts to interpret his paintings. He was mainly concerned with the viewer's experience, the merging of work and recipient beyond verbal comprehension. Rothko was an intellectual, a thinker, a highly educated man. He loved music and literature and was very involved in philosophy, especially in the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and of ancient Greek philosophy and mythology. Rothko was a protagonist within the movement of American painters who became known as the Abstract Expressionists. First formed in New York City during the inter-war years, this group was also called the New York School. Many among them, including Rothko, have become legendary figures.

Quote from Mark Rothko on the back reads, "I will say without reservations that from my view there can be no abstractions, any shape or area which [lacks] the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones. Its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture which does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me." See less