There are so many famous paintings out there – from The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali to DaVinci’s Mona Lisa. Which speak the most to you and why? Feel free to post an image of this painting so everyone can see this awesome work of art!
Mark Rothko’s work is quite simple and abstract, but for some reason I always find this painting gorgeous. It is not necessarily a demonstration of technical skill, but shows the unrealized capacity of two simple colours.
P.S.: The above painting is called “Orange and Yellow” and was made in 1956.
P.S.: The above painting is called “Orange and Yellow” and was made in 1956.
I don’t want to start a debate here, but I don’t get it. Whats the attraction of “Orange and Yellow”. When I look at it, I think of Orange flavored jell-o. I don’t want to be mean, or a jerk, I just never got “abstract” art.
I don’t want to start a debate here, but I don’t get it. Whats the attraction of “Orange and Yellow”. When I look at it, I think of Orange flavored jell-o. I don’t want to be mean, or a jerk, I just never got “abstract” art.
Fair enough! I can understand your perspective on abstract art, everyone has their personal preferences. I don’t necessarily like abstract art either, but I think that this painting in particular holds a certain sentiment for me just because of its presence in our culture and the concepts associated with it. When you see this painting you might see orange-flavoured jello (haha), when I see it I think of New York and both the simplicity and complexity of such a large city. Sounds crazy, I know! I don’t even know why I think that.
I love Madame Ginioux by Van Gogh! And lots of others too! Sorry for spelling errors.
No worries lala! Just glad your sharing your favourite art with us! Is this the Madame Ginoux painting you’re talking about? Why do you like it? :)
Regarding the abstract art- I love it. Art doesn’t have to mean something specific- colours and shapes that seem random or stupid can have a very deep effect on a person. Yellow and Orange is a great picture, do you have anything in blue and green though?
I personally like M.C. Escher’s works. They’re funny:
I always found the manipulation of 2-D and 3-D spaces in art quite interesting.
I really like that Escher drawing as well – is that the same artist who created the winding staircases which seem like one big maze? oLahav, I don’t know if you were just joking around – but Rothko indeed has a painting called “Green, Blue, Green on Blue”. All his paintings are very similar to this. I don’t like it as much as the Yellow and Orange, though.
You’re right, the Yellow and Orange is better (orange is my favourite colour!), but the green and blue here fit together in a nice harmony, I think.
Escher was the same artist who liked to paint staircases that don’t go anywhere, and other illogical optical illusions. There’s a Family Guy segment which has a “Rap by M.C. Escher” (a play on rapper M.C. Hammer), which has him in one of his crazy stairways paintings rapping something like “going up the stairs, and going down the stairs, and going up the sideway stairs”. That was really funny.
Escher is great. I like the one where he is portraying himself on the page by using his reflection seen off of a reflective sphere. His tessellations are interesting, too. I’m thinking of horses and knights or salamanders.
I like Rothko, too. They are simple but have a presence that invites an emotional response. Aren’t they rather large in real life?
I’ve seen the Ginoux painting and the colors sing!
As far as abstract art, I think you have to have the capacity to enjoy things that you don’t understand intellectually-for me American football is very abstract.
