Jonathan Jones on the Tate Rothkos

From The Guardian...

"Seeing Mark Rothko's Seagram murals - the expansive
canvases he originally painted for the walls of the Four Seasons
restaurant on the ground floor of New York's Seagram Building - in the current exhibition of his late work at Tate Modern is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. As well as the Tate collection's own group of nine of these red and purple marvels, you can see works in the series lent from museums in Washington DC and Japan. The total effect of such a large group of great paintings is fascinating - almost every painting in the cycle is a masterpiece. Rothko in this, his finest hour, was painting abstract works as rewarding as the portraits of Rembrandt or the landscapes of Turner."

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