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Thoughts of the day
Does everything need to be complicated to be appreciated?
Yesterday, in Tilda Swinton's ode to art, light and darkness, she references the velvet abyss of Mark Rothko. An artist that has often been considered as overrated, along with the rest of the abstract expressionism group.
As Rothko said:
“The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.”
We do not always have to travel very far to discover something new. After all, much of art exists to help us recognise and appreciate what is around and within us. And, of course, that darkness and light can perfectly co-exist.
No. 7 (Dark over Light), 1954
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