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Book review: Mark Rothko, The Artist's Reality: Look at the smaller picture
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Mark Rothko
The Artist's Reality
Mark Rothko
Yale, GBP 16.95
WHEN, on February 25, 1970, Mark Rothko committed suicide in his
Manhattan studio at the age of 66, he robbed the world of one of its
greatest artists.
Walking into the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas, or the Tate's
Seagram room, is one of life's sublime experiences. Those fabulous,
hovering blocks of pure colour and intractable darkness - brooding
encounters with the infinite - take the viewer beyond the art work
into a parallel universe. With an artistic legacy too vast to
quantify, Rothko has no equal. But what did he really ...
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