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Saturday, February 4, 2017

The Rothko Conundrum

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:48 pm


Photo:  J. Griffis Smith

By Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle , February 3, 2016

“At night, over Rothko Chapel’s reflecting pond, ‘Broken Obelisk’
looks particularly dramatic.

The great American sculptor Barnett Newman once said his
monumental sculpture ‘Broken Obelisk’ was intended to transform
ideas about life and tragedy into a glimpse of the ‘sublime.’ ”

. . . 

See as well Rothko
in this journal.

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