Maham Coffee with Mark Rothko:
In the series A Tribute to Great Artworks, the aim is to celebrate the greatest artists and artworks of all time. I try to pay tribute to these legends by recreating the visual in real life, through colours, textures, and ambience.
Today, I will honour one of my personal favourite painters, Mark Rothko, and one of his famous paintings, White Cloud Over Purple.
Mark Rothko was an American Painter of the Abstract Expressionism movement . He is generally famous as an abstract expressionist and is popular for his colour field and large-scale paintings.
Post-World War II – Modernism
Mark Rothko today has his place as one of the most important painters of Post-World War II modernism. His radical refusal to copy nature reduced painting to large, vibrant fields of colour. His works were a seminar influence on the development of monochrome painting.
Despite the enormous scale, Mark Rothko claimed his works were private yet playful, influencing human emotions.
~ Such a presence… when you turned your back to the painting, you would feel that presence the way you feel the sun on your back. – Mark Rothko
White Cloud over Purple 1975
White cloud over purple is believed to date back to 1975.
This painting presents three horizontal strips of colours; the top layer depicts a semi-transparent white cloud-like aura. A thin, purple band is placed right beneath the white cloud, and a warm red at the bottom. All three rectangular stripes drift against a warm rustic backdrop.
~I simply love his technique of layers of colours as solid blocks on huge scale. – Mark Rothko
In my humble tribute to this great artist, I tried to recreate Mark Rothko’s painting ‘White Cloud over Purple’ through solid blocks of colour in my attire.
Concept, Content writing, Art direction, Photography, Photo-editing done by Maham Iftikhar
