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MARK ROTHKO'S paintings lead you into calm thought, into an atmosphere of color, that dissolves any word attempting to describe it. From surrcalistic forms his images evolved into monumental rectangles that hover on the canvas. His color is subtle and strange. Part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, his work...
The 20th century art crowds together in one room, divided by a small ramp and some partitions. The closeness of paintings and sculptures and the directions that the viewer must walk in order to see all the things make a burst of movement. In this confusion, the largest. simplest canvas...
Cave of the Future. The Modern's rival-and less effective-display, called "Spaces," features five rooms each by a different artist. One, by Dan Flavin, is full of relentlessly glowing fluorescent lights; another, by Larry Bell, is totally dark except for several dimly reflecting glass tubes. Robert Morris...
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Cattrell of Edinburgh did not much care for the dark, spooky painting of a naked Eve and a leering Death-a legacy from Mrs. Cattrell's uncle that had been hanging in their living room for 15 years. "The most attractive paintings I have are...
...structuring color into definite geometric shapes, Minimal Artists give color the permanent stability it lacks in the impressionistic canvases of Olitsky. The smooth unmodulated hue of their minimal works pulls the canvas to an unprecedented flatness. The extensive steady tones glare outwards without suggesting any space for the eye to travel. Though it is difficult to conceive of a flatter picture, it is almost impossible not to see a special relationship between any two colors placed on the same surface. In their simplicity, the chevrons of Noland, thrust across the canvas, are impossible to forget. As the painted surfaces become...