Thoughts on Rothko

"I’m not an abstractionist. I’m 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...The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point."

Mark Rothko

Painter

What I have quoted here of Rothko is an attitude and way of reading works that goes beyond what the eye sees initally. His works  may appear as just blocks of colour but are able to evoke a deeper emotion in many people.
To continually search for an emotional response is not the point but more to create work thats meaning or affect for you as an artist runs deeper than you get at an inital glance.

This image was on a roll I got back last week, when you first look at it you might think 'mistake'. I can no longer even remember what i was trying to capture.
Looking again and rethinking the image I saw a beautiful wash of colours first of all, then second a subtle song of emotions. I do not believe them to evoke any kind of 'religious experience' like the majesty of Rothko's works but there is a dainty melody and a cool smile shining through those colours.