Tuesday, March 30, 2010
ROTHKO
I would love to see this play.
In "Red" 2-Man Cast Shares Stage With a Vivid Character
Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne play Mark Rothko and his assistant.
They actually paint in the show. It says you can smell the paint when you come into the theater.
Rothko was a haunted man and committed suicide. He was trouble for patrons. He was commissioned to paint eight panels for an opening of a Four Season's Hotel and then withheld the work because he didn't like the hotel's clientele.
I never stayed in a Four Seasons for exactly that reason but we used to have dinner in their really nice bistro facing the Boston Common. I know. Very self referential but it is the truth.
Rothko's works are very moving. They are often shown in low light as prescribed by the artist.
We went to see The Rothko Chapel in Houston.
I can still see it in my mind's eye.
Rothko mostly painted stripes or columns in unusual shades that worked the eye and spirit. Hard. It all went right past the brain.
