Saturday 2 April 2011

The Rothko Room at the Tate Modern has been reopened.  It is on level 3 inside the Material Gestures section. The murals that were intended  for  the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in NY are hung there.  Seeing the murals again I was struck by the quietness and vastness of them.  In painting these murals Rothko was influenced by Michelangelo's Laventian Library in Florence with its blind windows and oppressive atmosphere.  The murals are all in dark reds and greys and looking at them intently there is a sense of looking out through a window.  





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