Thesis (B.A.)--Bryn Mawr College. Dept. of History of Art, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

The overall goal of this dissertation is to identify and examine the neglected aspects of the literature on Mark Rothko's 1958-1959 project to make murals for the Four Seasons restaurant (see Figs. 1-12) in the then-newly opened Seagram Building in Manhattan. These include Rothko's attempts to merge the mediums of painting and architecture in order to create an antagonistic environment in the restaurant; how his visits to Italy before and during the project reinforced this goal; how a good deal of the figurative paintings from Rothko's earliest career anticipated his blend of aggression and architecturally-related themes; the connection between Rothko and Mies van der Rohe, the architect of the building, in regard to the theme of transcendence; and how his experiments with architectural subjects and motifs aligned Rothko with some of the most influential vanguard artists in New York in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Discussions of these topics will suggest that his career-long references to architecture functioned, for him, as something intended to produce discomfort in the viewer. I will show that his acceptance of a lucrative commission to make paintings for a lavish restaurant that might seem at first to suggest pandering to an élite audience had the paradoxical effect of condemning that audience. I intend also to demonstrate that Rothko understood that the project was not merely about making paintings. Instead, for him, it dealt more with the challenge of uniting architecture and painting. / Art History

Este é um estudo sobre a importância da imaterialidade encontrada na obra de Kazímir Sievierínovitch Maliévitch (1878-1935), artista, pintor, filósofo, professor e arquiteto russo, considerado um dos principais precursores da arte abstrata. Os ideais de um mundo melhor e sem objetos, defendidos pelo artista, tiveram como consequência uma proposta visual representada por uma simplicidade nas formas e cores, com imensa sofisticação filosófica e intelectual. Num período de guerras e revoluções, os artistas dessa geração buscavam novas propostas. Não havia mais espaço para uma arte puramente contemplativa. Para a compreensão de suas obras, dependemos de uma extensa pesquisa pictórico-filosófica, com temas relacionados ao visível e ao sensível, para assim criarmos um possível juízo de valor. Faremos também um breve estudo sobre a imaterialidade contida na obra de Mark Rothko (1903, Rússia 1970, Nova Iorque), baseado em um olhar pós-suprematista. Para o estudo e abordagem dessas características da visualidade, nos apropriaremos de alguns aspectos do pensamento de Merleau-Ponty, para então justificarmos um possível olhar pós-suprematista em Rothko. / This is a study on the importance of immateriality found in the work of Kazimir Sievierinovich Maliévitch (1878 - 1935), artist, painter, philosopher, teacher and Russian architect, considered one of the main precursors of abstract art. The ideals of a better world and without objects, defended by the artist, had as consequence a visual proposal represented by a simplicity in the forms and colors, with immense philosophical and intellectual sophistication. In a period of wars and revolutions, the artists of this generation were seeking new proposals, there was no more space for a purely contemplative art. For the understanding of his works we depend on an extensive pictorial-philosophical research, with themes related to the visible and the sensitive, in order to create a possible value judgment. We will also make a brief study of the immateriality contained in the work of Mark Rothko (1903 - Russia, 1970 - New York), through a post-suprematist look. For the study and approach of these characteristics of visuality we will appropriate some aspects of Merleau-Ponty\'s thought, to justify a possible post-suprematist look in Rothko.

Nous partons de la présentation de l'oeuvre de Mark Rothko et d’une analyse quirévèle en elle les « risques du sublime », ce qui nous permet alors d’adopter un point de vue esthétique. Attirant l'attention sur l’acte nécessaire du spectateurcontemporain s’il veut découvrir un sens à son expérience des oeuvres d’art, nouscherchons à forger de nouvelles voies de compréhension. La réflexion vise ainsi àmontrer la manière dont le sublime et l’approche apophatique de la mystique peuventnous aider à mieux comprendre l‘attitude nouvelle exigée par la peinture moderne. Il faut comprendre que nous devons nous disposer à (ou pour) l’oeuvre, sans chercher à lui attribuer un sens. Il faut accepter d’être d’abord désorientés et apprendre à reconnaître ensuite d'autres relations possibles entre l’oeuvre et soi-même, pour finir par voir d’un oeil éminemment spirituel. De sorte qu’il s’agit au final d’apprendre à vivre l’oeuvre de Rothko et un certain type d'art contemporain en intégrant des modes nouveaux d’accès à cette peinture, tout en vérifiant une expérience proche du religieux, bien que séculaire. / Using the presentation of Mark Rothko’s work and an analysis unveiling the "risks of the sublime" in it, we advance through an aesthetic approach. Focusing on thenecessary act that the contemporaneous viewer must engage in to find a meaning inthe experience of the paintings; our aim is to forge new ways of understanding. This consideration reveals how the sublime and an apophatic mystic help us understand a new and needed appreciation for modern art. By becoming fully open and available to the painting without searching to assign a sense and accepting to be disorientated at first, we arrive at other possible relationships and we can see with an eminently spiritual vision. Thus, we learn to live Rothko’s works and too, contemporary painting, suggesting new ways of access and evincing an experience that can be religious, while remaining secular. / Partimos de la presentación de la obra de Mark Rothko y de un análisis que nosdescubre los "riesgos de lo sublime" en ella, para tomar después un punto de vistaestético. Dirigiendo la atención al necesario acto que el espectador contemporáneodebe realizar para encontrar un sentido en su experiencia con las obras, buscamosforjar nuevas vías de comprensión. La reflexión, entonces, pretende descubrir cómolo sublime y una mística apofática podrían ayudarnos a entender esa nueva actitudque pide la pintura moderna. Entender que debemos disponernos a la obra, sinbuscar un sentido para atribuirle, aceptando una desorientación primera, para llegar a aceptar otras relaciones posibles y ver finalmente con una visión eminentemente espiritual. Así, aprender a vivir la obra de Rothko y de un cierto tipo de arte contemporáneo proponiendo nuevos modos de acceso y constatando unaexperiencia que pude ser religiosa, aunque secular.

Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-54). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1978. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 370-386).

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Cette thèse interroge et analyse comment la lumière, en tant que phénomène naturel et physique, est devenue un phénomène proprement pictural. Si la lumière, qu’elle soit naturelle ou artificielle, est la force mettant en acte la visibilité du monde pour la majorité des êtres vivants, elle est également à l’origine des couleurs qui sont les effets de son action spécifique sur l’œil. En interagissant directement avec la matière, la lumière produit la couleur et penser philosophiquement le concept de lumière dans l’art pictural revient donc tout d’abord à comprendre le cheminement des voies propres de la couleur qui fut progressivement reconnue comme la spécificité même de la peinture. Intrinsèquement liées au sein de toute expérience perceptive, lumière et couleur impliquent un processus physiologique dont les paradigmes évoluèrent au fil des siècles. La couleur révèle un monde visible dont l’origine lumineuse échappe pourtant à la perception et les peintres œuvrèrent à dégager l’origine invisible du visible : la lumière, essence de la visibilité. Le sujet percevant, découvert comme l’agent actif de l’expérience optique impliqua une transformation radicale et le monde du visible, qui constituait jusqu’alors une forme privilégiée de connaissance, fut reconsidéré en fonction des caractéristiques subjectives de l’œil. En devenant objet de connaissance, la vision pénétra ainsi dans le champ de la philosophie et des sciences expérimentales. C’est plus particulièrement à travers l’analyse de l’œuvre de Mark Rothko et de celle de Pierre Soulages que nous orienterons la seconde partie de notre recherche tant le concept de lumière y rencontre de riches problématiques esthétiques qui entrent en résonance avec les paradigmes artistiques propres à l’histoire de la peinture. / This doctoral thesis suggests questionning how light, a natural and physical phenomenon has also become a concept in the field of painting. Light, artifical or natural, is not only the mere driving force behind vision for the majority of beings in this world, it is also at the origin of colors, which result from the action of light on the eye. By interacting directly with the material, light produces color. Therefore, to think philosophically the concept of light in pictorial art would thus means first to understand the inner ways of color, which have been gradually recognized as the true specificity of painting. Intrinsically connected within any perceptive experience, light and color involve a physiological process paradigm which evolved in the course of the centuries. Color reveals a visible world whose bright origin still cannot be grasped by our perception, and painters have worked to release the invisible origin of the visible: light, the essence of the visibility. The role of the perceiving subject is then profoundly transformed as it becomes regarded as the active agent of the optical experience. The visible world, thus far a privileged shape of knowledge, is reconsidered according to the subjective characteristics of the eye. By becoming an object of knowledge, vision became associated to the fields of philosophy and experimental sciences. Most precisely, since the concept of light meets in their works such rich aesthetic problems which resonate with the artistic paradigms that belong to the history of painting, it is throughout an analysis of Mark Rothko’s and Pierre Soulages’s work that the research work has been focused in a second part.

<p>Undersökning av färgen i förhållande till innehåll i Mark Rothkos abstrakta verk. Studien innefattar en undersökning i hur man skriver om färg i anslutning till Rothkos abstrakta målningars innehåll och huruvida färg kan avgöra betydelser.</p> / <p>A study about color in relationship to content in Mark Rothko’s abstract paintings. It includes a research in how people write about color when discussing Mark Rothko´s paintings and how that is related to content. It also looks at color in relationship to meaning.</p>

Undersökning av färgen i förhållande till innehåll i Mark Rothkos abstrakta verk. Studien innefattar en undersökning i hur man skriver om färg i anslutning till Rothkos abstrakta målningars innehåll och huruvida färg kan avgöra betydelser. / A study about color in relationship to content in Mark Rothko’s abstract paintings. It includes a research in how people write about color when discussing Mark Rothko´s paintings and how that is related to content. It also looks at color in relationship to meaning.