[prion]

If you really do want to know more about the form and content of Rothko's work, check out my home page for clickable "classes" on many periods in art history.

Art that requires a learned dissertation to appreciate has failed as art.

[agere_contra]

Art that requires a learned dissertation to appreciate has failed as art.

Agreed. Art expresses - it does not need to be interpreted. It absolutely doesn't need a priesthood.

[D-Chivas]

Art that requires a learned dissertation to appreciate has failed as art.

Thanks for reinforcing negative stereotypes about conservatives concerning art. If you had any knowledge of Rothko's history, you wouldn't make such asinine comments.

[petro45acp]

This post encapsulates both my perceptions of this article and this "artist's" "work." "If you really do want to know more about the form and content of Rothko's work, check out my home page for clickable "classes" on many periods in art history." I don't. I don't want to know any more about the form and content of this drek. blocks of color. So What? "I could take a crap in a box and call it guaranteed..." It is like calling John Cage's musical maunderings (calling them musical is suspect) evocative, or that himbo that hung sheets all around central park a sculptor. "Art that requires a learned dissertation to appreciate has failed as art." Prion has the right idea here. If a reasonably educated, reasonably interested human cannot perceive what you are trying to present with an artistic offering, you have probably offered it up to your oh-so-sensitive cronies. You now deserve every cocked head, scratched head, and derisive, scornful snort provided by those reasonable and interested folk. Top sends Top sends' art commentary can be found aperiodically on the Free Republic.

[Stentor]

Art that requires a learned dissertation to appreciate has failed as art.

Rothko's doesn't. It does require that you stand in front of it.