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Unread 04-29-2022, 05:05 PM
Michael Cantor Michael Cantor is offline
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Oh God, Sarah, we're on different sides of the fence. I love Rothko's work - those massive blocks of color - but you picked the two Rothko paintings that I don't like, and are totally different than most of his work. Here's my Rothko poem (fittingly, the last one in my most recent book) and a Rothko I would have picked to go with it.

Rothko

black black black black black black
in tones of black and black on black
the canvases are tagged abstract
expressionist
on every plaque
although the artist will attack
abstract and shun the word the lack
of it will not distract the claque
in black black black black black

brown brown brown brown brown
a message floats above the ground
serene reflective, and profound
a man who wound his own life down
red red red red red red red red
dead dead dead dead dead dead


https://media.architecturaldigest.co...-525096024.jpg

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