Tuesday, August 02, 2011

EARLY ROTHKO--Guest Post by Artfully Awear


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Hello! I'm Ariel from Artfully Awear. As an art historian, artist, and art enthusiast, my greatest style inspiration comes from--you guessed it--art. Each of my outfits is inspired by a particular artist's work or art movement, and I like to share some background about the inspiration as well.

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This outfit was inspired by the early work of the very well known artist, Mark Rothko (1903-1970).

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Rothko is most known for his later work--broad color field pieces like this. However, during his early career, Rothko's work maintained a figural quality inspired by mythology and Surrealism.

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During Rothko's quest to reach his "mature" style, his works became more and more simplified, but there is a beautiful lyrical quality to the early canvases that is implicit in the later works as well.

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Though he attempted to avoid the label, Rothko was eventually included alongside Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, and Franz Kline as an Abstract Expressionist.

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"There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing." --Mark Rothko

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I'm wearing an H&M blouse, thrifted Ralph Lauren pants, NYLA wedges, a vintage leather belt, and a leather Lauren Merkin clutch.

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Thank you to Rose for giving me the opportunity to post! You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Bloglovin.
[Rothko images from all-art.org, madamepickwickartblog.com, and spademz.com, respectively.]

3 Comments:

Meri said...

cute post! :) i'm studying art so it was interesting :) xx

Katherine said...

Fantastic post! I love the outfit and all the Rothko references :)

Emily said...

Love this post!

Emily http://www.mywordsinterestslife.blogspot.com

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