mark rothko

I’ve been turned on by paintings by Mark Rothko ever since I saw a calendar of his work for sale at Borders in January for half off (about 6 bucks). Being the cheap-skate that I am, I hid the calendar in another section of the store knowing full-well that Borders eventually sells their calendars for $1 at the beginning of February. I returned to the store at the end of January to see if the hidden calendar was still there and of course it was gone. Those Oak Brook Borders workers run a tight ship. Perhaps the fact that I was denied the ownership of this calendar resulted in a planted seed in my brain that Mark Rothko’s work is very desirable. So my interest in Mark Rothko began with this calendar incident.

A couple days ago I visited the Elmhurst Public Library and checked out a massive book on Mark Rothko. As my wife said, “that’s a big book”. It’s over 700 pages of nothing but pure Mark Rothko excitement and adventure. His chromatic abstraction is mesmerizing. Of course, it trenscends simple color theory.

I can’t believe I was in Houston a couple years ago and didn’t make it to The Rothko Chapel. Oh well, I was there on business anyways.

Did you know that Mark Rothko was Latvian? My neighbor ,Mark, and I coulda been buds.

It’s hard to believe that there are only 26 results for: Mark Rothko: on google’s image search (large sizes only). Searching for: Rothko: gives 77 results (large sizes only) ,but alotta of the images are unrelated like this one.