Around Moscow
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The Moscow Garage Center for Contemporary...
not significant for him anymore. "The fact that one usually begins with drawing is already academic. We start with color," he said, adding that "if I have faltered in the use of familiar objects, it is because I refuse to mutilate their appearance for the sake of an action which they are too old to serve, or for which perhaps they had never been intended""I am not an abstractionist. ... I am not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. ... I"m interested only in expressing basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on - and the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions..." Rothko said in 1957 in an interview with Selden Rodman for his book Conversations with Artists.
MOSCOW, April 22 (RIA Novosti by Anastasia Markitan)
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