Reblogged apeirophobia
Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:
- There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality… Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.
- Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.
- Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.
- Irony. This is a modern ingredient—the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.
- Wit and Play..for the human element.
- The ephemeral and chance…for the human element.
- Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.
