The projects of a wrap artist could not have been presented in a better way. The photography, artwork, the quality and tactile senses of the book are among the best, it is truly a great addition to the permanent collection.
Shimmering, pulsating color masses characterize the Abstract Expressionist masterpieces of Mark Rothko. Like no other artist in his generation, Rothko developed his own stylistic vocabulary, creating ceiling-high canvases that were to be experienced as much as seen, submerging viewers in the drama, intimacy, and tragedy of the human condition.
Leven en werk van de beeldend kunstenaar, met de nadruk op de veelzijdigheid van zijn werk in verschillende technieken.
Bild-/Textband mit einer Einführung in Leben und Werk des bedeutenden Vertreters der Farbfeldmalerei (Colour Field Painting) Mark Rothko (1903-70).
This volume contains a survey of the works by Russian-born American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970). Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence 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 characterized this relationship as a consummated experience between picture and onlooker. His color formations indeed draw the observer into a space filled with an inner light. He was mainly concerned with the viewer's experience, the merging of work and recipient beyond verbal comprehension
When the final tally of key movers in the plastic arts of this century is compiled, there is no doubt that maestro of movement Alexander Calder (1898-1976), the man who put the swing into sculpture, will be near numero uno. Calder took it off the plinth, gave it to the wind, and left us kinetic playgrounds of the spirit. He operated at the point where Modernity and nature Fused, developing an environmental art that changed the medium Forever. Visiting his Paris atelier in 1932, Duchamp coined the term "Mobiles" For Calder's delicate wire and disc pieces, constructions that would soon become immensely popular. But he didn't rest on his innovations. Friends with Miro, Mondrian and Leger, Calder also turned his hand to painting, drawing, gouaches, toys, textiles and utensil design. A graphic master who sketched as much in air as in ink, the Sixties and Seventies saw Calder take on the monumental, translating the dynamics of cities into both his Mobiles and "Stabiles". At a time when sculpture was perceived to be the antithesis of movement, Calder unmade gravity and freed the elements in a body of work that is still sending a wind of change through the art world today.
Text in English and German. Published to accompany the exhibition held at Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, 27 September 2001 - 1 January 2002
