ORANGE, RED, YELLOW 
Mark Rothko, 1961

liu wei

liza lou

bestias:

Dream  - John Cage

Ivo Stoyanov.

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Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, 1960-66

From the Guggenheim:
Ad Reinhardt’s writings on art read as a litany of negative aphorisms. Describing his signature black paintings, which he focused on exclusively from 1953 until his death in 1967, he wrote: “A free, unmanipulated, unmanipulatable, useless, unmarketable, irreducible, unphotographable, unreproducible, inexplicable icon.” These canvases—muted black squares containing barely discernable cruciform shapes—challenge the limits of visibility. Reinhardt’s strategy of denial echoed his conviction that Modernism itself was a “negative progression,” that abstraction evolved as a series of subtractions, and he was creating the last or “ultimate paintings.” Rather than forecasting the death of painting as a viable art form, however, Reinhardt was instead affirming painting’s potential to transcend the contradictory rhetoric that surrounded it in contemporary criticism and the increasing commercial influences of the market.

Keith Haring. stills from painting myself into a corner, 1979 - video, 33 min

collection keith haring foundation, © keith haring foundation

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Rothko, by Corey D´Augustine

“I can control the flow of the paint. There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”

Jackson Pollock 1951

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open

Robert Motherwell, who died in 1991, was the youngest member of the first wave of Abstract Expressionists known as the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman. An articulate writer, Motherwell was pegged early on as the intellectual of the group. Robert Motherwell: Open is the first examination of the painter’s Open series, which preoccupied him from 1967 until the last years of his life. Pared down and minimal, these paintings differ greatly from his more dynamic and monumental Elegies series, for which he is perhaps best known. Containing many previously unpublished paintings as well as works in public collections, this monograph—the most comprehensive and best-illustrated book on Motherwell currently in print—introduces a series of texts by critics and art historians John Yau, Robert Hobbs, Matthew Collings, Donald Kuspit, Robert Mattison, Mel Gooding and Saul Ostrow.

turbine generation

Gerhard Richter , the film!!!!!!!!!

I´ll never tire of seeing his work.

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Willem de Kooning studio in East Hampton, Archetectual Digest, 1983

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núvol y cadira,     Antoni Tàpies 

Antoni Tàpies,  (1923-2012)