https://www.reddit.com/r/modernart/comments/1bpaiae/shoot_um_moma_what_is_this/

Rothko's Untitled. I don't like abstract expressionism but he's probably the technical height of it from how much work actually went into that.

  • edge [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    If they made that exact painting (instead of Rothko) and walked into whatever gallery that is looking to sell it or even just put it on display, they'd get turned away.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Sure, but because it's now a 55 year-old idea. If I plagiarise a book written in 1969 and submit it to a publisher they'd also reject it. If you submit a genuinely new idea to an avant-garde gallery then you wouldn't be turned away.

      • edge [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        That's why I said instead of Rothko.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        That's true, but he's saying that 99.9% of people living in 1969 would also have been tuned away