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...greens and purples. By controlling the gas flow, Harrison produces extraordinary changes of form in the light-bubbles, disks, even artificial lightning. The effect is solemn and exquisitely meditative; it is also wholly pictorial, without a hint of gimmickry. The room is Harrison's private homage to Mark Rothko: "I made a very specific reference to him," he says. "This was my way of acknowledging a man who I thought was involved in a kind of magnificent and very lonely vision...
Though he won little public acclaim until late in his life, Avery was early known as an artist's artist. His Manhattan studio became a gathering place for many newcomers, among them Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb. Avery and friends sketched frequently at each other's homes. Seated Blonde resulted from one such session in 1946, when the model turned out to be a strapping 6-ft. beauty named Stella, daughter of that week's host. Avery combined pink with burnt sienna, magenta and crimson, with all the jangling dissonance of half a dozen crashing cymbals...
Died. Mark Rothko, 66, Russian-born master of Abstract Expressionism, whose monumental canvases, aglow with rectangles of floating color, were exquisite in their simplicity; by his own hand (slashed wrists); in his Manhattan studio. The son of an immigrant Russian pharmacist, Rothko developed his talent with virtually no formal training, progressing from realism through Surrealism to his own version of abstractionism. Line, subject, perspective-all were gone. "You have nothing here but content," he once said, in describing his style of running colors together to produce the impression of shimmering motion from an almost totally static form. Recognition was long...
...Rothko believed that a painting breathes in the understanding of those who see it. His works do not live easily in our eye. Like all complex, contemporary art, they question us, confuse us with shape, dazzle us with size...
...death this week will make us see his canvasses differently. We will see the movement of intense shades of red without the assumption that these works can be produced indefinitely. Rothko's final despair, leading to his suicide Wednesday, tragically reminds us of a vision we have lost...