Rothko - Light Red over Black

Light Red over Black. 1957.

 It is not difficult to know that Caravaggio, or Rubens, or Monet's works have tremendous beauty. The moment we see them, we know these are sublime art. But Pollock, or Kooning, or Rothko's works give us a very different feeling contrary to an earlier artist. There are the odd lines and incomprehensible colors  in their paintings. Thier paintings don't seem to have any specific form, shape and figure. We will bring one word to mind: inharmony. "what accounts for this curious paintings? Even I can paint better than that." You are asked and answer.

But, at one point, we can vaguely sense that maybe, maybe there would be hidden art. "Maybe didn't I see the beauty being flowing between strange lines?" We have a suspicion. At that moment, we need someone who came to tell us that these printings are beautiful, but that they must ambiguous and that it is necessary, therefore, to understand them with intuition. After that time, perhaps someone could tell beauty, the story, it has had though it's not a specific economic passage on the book.

Someone who was standing in front of Rothko's "Light Red over Black" perhaps could feel that a swirl of emotions was emerging from the darkness, and that it lets the mind clean up. When you saw that painting, maybe you'd like to ask to Rothko whether the shapes were really there, or the black is the foreground or background. No, you'd like to say like this above all things: what did they mean? One day Rothko had described his work as the "simple expression of complex thought." It's maybe helpful to us to understand his work. But there is not any real teacher who answers a riddle. What is that exactly?

Many abstract expressionists say that their paintings were rooted in emotions, the human psyche. In my view, in a broad sense, the beauty of abstract art is the story it lets me imagine. When we travel, we spend days in Paris, Prague visiting churches, castles, museums, and yet all that remains for us is some pictures of them. Still and all, It was worth all the trouble. We can be moved while gazing at the Early 13th century stained-glass window in Notre Dame de Chartres Cathedral and sit beside stairs in order to watch people passing. That's a story. There exists several places, several moments, and several stories in travel through which human beings must pass from birth to death. We can find it in abstract paintings, too. So we should be patient. We should watch and look for a bit. We may be surprised and marveled.

One day Aristotle said: "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Where art is regarded as outer figures, abstract art gives people a chance to look at things and judge them in a new way. So if you had ever said "even I can paint better than that," I believe it is also very helpful to you to remind Picasso's word that he said to himself: "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

Where is the harbor? That is the question that permeates this painting.