Mark Rothko's Color Field Paintings Inspire 'Current Rothko' Weather Experiment by Joonas Virtanen
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Kate Mothes
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This article discusses Mark Rothko's "color field" paintings and introduces a project called 'Current Rothko' by New York-based designer and creative director Joonas Virtanen, which uses Rothko's work as a foundation for a weather-to-painting experiment. The piece explores Rothko's artistic approach, his large-scale canvases, and the broader context of the color field movement that included artists like Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, and Josef Albers.
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These works are generally characterized by their total abstraction and emphasis on clearly delineated areas, or 'fields,' of different hues.
For Rothko, canvases were often very large, measuring upwards of 10 feet.
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