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.

    • PapaEmeritusIII [any]
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      6 months ago

      One of my favorite paintings I’ve ever seen in person is completely blue. But it’s a strange, translucent blue that was accomplished by carefully applying dozens of slightly tinted layers. Your eyes don’t really register the canvas as a surface when looking at it; it’s more like a portal into the blue dimension or something.

      It’s in a free gallery. I really ought to go back someday and stare at it some more.

      • Beaver [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        A lot of this kind of art that people mock online have a completely different effect when you see it in person. Pollock paintings where that for me; easy to mock as a teenager seeing them on a computer screen, but breathtaking when you're standing in front of them.