Rothko at Modern

Last day of the Rothko exhibition a Tate Modern. I'm goingat !0.30am, if anyone fancies it.

Aw rubbish, I totally missed that one and I have a wedding today. LAAME.

I've been twice - it's a cracking exhibition. Enjoy!

I visited, and got lots of disapproving looks when upon entering the black room I immediately thought of the fast show painter sketch and kept giggling.

Black, black, black as satan's heart

Ok Johnny, let's go home now...

Aw rubbish, I totally missed that one and I have a wedding today. LAAME.

youll make a great husband ;)

dont take it seriosly.

Jilted at the altar for enormous moody paintings? Sounds reasonable...

'Twas super intense, fabulous craftsmanship but I felt the dark side of Russian sensibility in full force, maybe a Dostoeyevsky equivalent.

I just remembered there was one that looked like a moonscape, and I made my mother crack up when I whispered to her "Look, he's forgotten to paint in the Clangers."

damm dammm I knew i was forgetting somwthing.. saw the reviews etc, really wanted to go but got too busy and poor..

You're right, no sense of humour present!

I don't know about you, but I thought, stuck in a gallery all together like that, it stripped away a lot of what makes them special.

The really odd thing was not knowing much about Rothko I never thought he would have done sketches for the paintings - I mean, they don't seem like works of precision initially. So to see full size sketches, looking almost exactly like the finished paintings was a bit weird.

But in many respects You've got to hand it to the guy who wanted to envelope everybody by the size and aggressive use of colour. Most people in the sixties were trying to get over the legacy of surrealism and Picasso and Miro.

read Baudrillard's essay Hot Painting, if you enjoyed the rothko you will love it.

were they selling them off cheap as it was the last day? ;)

No they doubled the price :)