/lit/ - Literature

>>9046816
i guess I'm not surprised that plebs are trashing Rothko's color fields. they look like simple color swatches on screen.

In person they're massive canvases, about 20' square, and the colors aren't just a color painted on, it's not yellow and orange and red and black. It's yellows and oranges and reds and blacks, layered and layered, interacting with each other and involving the viewer. That's why they're so stunning, because the depth and immensity. He's done canvases completely in black without ever actually using black and it looks like complete shit online, but in person it's really captivating because you see all the underlying color

Some poet perhaps?