@PhilipDBunn modern artists like Rothko or Pollock, Klee, Picasso, etc. were all intentionally moving away from Renaissance "illusionism" - the recreation of the 3D on a 2D surface. This was intentional, and indeed moat artists sought to make more "childish" art (cont'd)
@PhilipDBunn Reinaissance art represented Enlightenment ideals which then led to Romanticism which brought the world the horrors and destructions of World Wars, holocaust. Artists intentionally no longer wanted to recreate the world, for the world was chaotic and destructive
@PhilipDBunn Thus, abstract art like this arises so artists beganrepresent what was inside the individual soul and mind, subconscious, etc. They didn't give a damn what it looked like, just the feelings that arose. Rothko wanted to recreate landscape paintings without landscape forms
@PhilipDBunn So youve got these image, as if youre staring off in a distant horizon into a sunrise. These are color effects, not a representation of life itself. That's intentional - life fucking sucked for artists working in the inter/post war periods. They had had enough of true-to-life art
@PhilipDBunn hope this kinds helps - modern aet is very tricky but its very much intentionally deconstructing formal elements in favor of intended emotional impact - which may or may not captivate the viewer - and its much harder the further away you get from the point of production 😀
@PhilipDBunn "good" is definitely subjective. Rothko holds a place in art historical canon as a contributor to the deconstruction or form over ideal representation. Picasso's Cubism jumpastarted this new exploration, and now all of contemporary art has followed in place 😍
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