A Guide and Two Untime Chronicles to Contemplate Rothko’s Work

Fernando Echarri; Emilio Varela

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A Guide and Two Untime Chronicles to Contemplate Rothko’s Work

Fernando Echarri, Emilio Varela

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 6, Issue 4)

Received: 23 August 2018 Accepted: 7 September 2018 Published: 10 October 2018

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The experience offered by a museum to a visitor can have different nature and importance for everyone. Each artwork is perpetually sending a message to the viewer, possibly creating an art-person link. This link can provide experiences of great significant power to the visitor. The article below aims to delve into the facilitation of these experiences in the case of the paintings created by the artist Mark Rothko work (1903-1970). Their special characteristics mean that they can be called "Rothko experiences". As a result, a guide to viewing the work, based on the artist's recommendations, has been developed which can facilitate the emergence of these so-called "Rothko experience". Specifically, some of the multiple "reality-aesthetical-art" connections experienced between Rothko's work and people whom observation incorporate an aesthetical and metaphysical dimension of reality are presented. To help in the understanding of these profound experiences and the aesthetical education of sensibility, the narrative method is used through two chronicles that gather the experiences lived by the authors in their contemplation of Rothko's work. These chronicles are examples that can help to understand the possibilities of Rothko's contemplative painting. The result is a synthetic study of Rothko work conceptualization, through one guide and the narrative dialectics between two "Rothko experiences" to show his aesthetical way of thinking, represented in his paintings.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 6, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20180604.12
Page(s)	68-76
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Aesthetic Education, Significant Experiences, Un-Time, Rothko Experiences

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Fernando Echarri

University of Navarra Museum, Pamplona, Spain
Emilio Varela

Official College of Vasco Navarro Architects, Gipuzkoa, Spain

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