Mark Rothko....A Profound Modernist

Here I go with another blog on meaningful creative souls. The powerhouse wild art that is abstract expressionism lights up my being. A favorite artist of mine in this category of "super" guys is Mark Rothko. This man's art has so much vigorous emotionalism built into its structure. In rather clever innovative contexts he was able to mix the systems of expressionism and surrealism. Mark Rothko always backed up the artist's right to total freedom in creating his works. Mark Rothko was born in a part of Russia that is now Latvia. He came to the United States in 1910 and got the others in his family brought over in the year 1913. Later in his life Rothko came up with rigorous indeed profound color field kinds of paintings. Rothko makes his esthetic surges into art sleekness by letting us have quite unusual shapes. He has landscapes and yet indeed they are not landscapes. For they push the envelope much as the unique music of John Cage offers new vistas and poignant journeys into the dynamics of the human soul. In the vivid art of Mark Rothko just as in the modernism-inflected music of John Cage there is an iconoclastic wild tremendousness that is so completely engaging. The art of Mark Rothko has the brilliance of "cutting edge" thought processes. Indeed this essence is refreshing. The color rectangles of the wild art of Rothko.....Ah! This kind of passion injects terrific energy into all our brains.