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There are quotes that seem to follow the paintings of MarkRothko wherever they go, and curators love to hang them on the wall like a skeleton key. Get the full experience. The painter's aphorism makes another appearance as one of several bits of wall text at the National Gallery. In the early 1950s, the painter began to resolve his Multiform pieces into a calmer consistency: diffusely defined panels of abutting colors, their most subdued colors lighting up into a strange glow, their silence overtaking every room they occupied. Though washed of conventional meaning, the paintings seem steeped in raw emotion. The 1959 Untitled is a different kind of painting than the 1968 Untitled. He became a painter because he wanted to raise the level of poignancy of music and poetry in his paintings.
The exhibition's emphasis on the painter's practice in the studio gave Danielle Hahn an opportunity to hear the artist differently. In the past, we focused a lot on composers who wrote works inspired by his art, who he knew. Mozart and the other classical composers were at the forefront of whatRothko really liked.
The National Gallery has a series of short afternoon concerts called "Mozart and Mark" that aims to make more audible the connection between these two seemingly disparate visionaries. Mozart's String quartet in B-flat Major and the Piano quartet in G Minor will be performed by the Vega String Quartet and William Ransom. The members of the Maryland Opera Studio will perform scenes from three Mozart operas.
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The author of the book "Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out" put a lot of the qualities of his father's work into words, including the influence of Mozart. The exhibition curator believes that the foundation for the painter's work was provided by Friedrich Nietzsche's 1872 work, "The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music." Rothko hoped his paintings conveyed basic human emotions and that comes from tragedy, which in turn comes out of music.
The paintings begin to sing when you take them into the galleries, where silence is hard to come by. The paintings have an exciting range of scales, from miniature to massive. There is a connection between the musicRothko painted and his paintings, even if it seems like a stretch. The right music may be the key to unlocking it.