Into the Fundamentals: On The Seagram Murals

That, however, is the power of The Seagram Murals: to give the viewer a glimpse of how small and fragile they are; to drive home the fact of one’s placeness.

Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals hang in London’s Tate gallery according to his very detailed instructions: no more than six inches off the floor, on “considerably off-white walls with umber and warmed by a little red,” and under low light, so the colors don’t wash out. They are massive things, painted in deep, shifting layers of […]

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