Scope and Contents El arte y sus formas de expresar el espírituEl Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín presenta la exposición 'De lo espiritual en el arte. Obertura'. Comentar Facebook Twitter Guardar Enviar LinkedinfgSe presentan dibujos y acuarelas, entre otras técnicas, de artistas que en su mayoría son extranjeros. Foto:Relacionados: Entretenimiento Por: Redacción EL TIEMPO 01 de agosto 2016 , 05:06 p.m.“El arte es...

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Scope and Contents Hearing VoicesAs a librettist, I thought the idea of setting an opera in the Rothko Chapel seemed preposterous. The much hallowed place in Houston, considered by many to be one of the greatest achievements in mid-twentieth-century art, doubles as a gallery exhibiting Mark Rothko's paintings and as a sanctuary of quiet and contemplation. It is where the merest whisper can incur the most censorious sneers from fellow visitors. Setting an opera in the chapel seemed almost...

Scope and Contents INSIDE THE Rothko Chapel, light sifts through an oculus overhead, casting the newly restored space in a soft glow. As the sun shifts in the sky, so do the colors in the paintings by Mark Rothko that hang on the walls. From the purple, black and crimson canvases emerge glints of ruby and plum, tinges of green and aubergine. This interfaith sanctuary, in a residential section of Houston’s Montrose area, was the vision of art patrons John and Dominique de Menil. They believed modern art was a...

Scope and Contents Rothko could be high minded. He dumped his gallerist Sidney Janis because Janis represented that twerp Warhol. And he butted heads with architect Philip Johnson over the Rothko Chapel’s design. Rothko’s need to control his paintings’ presentation caused Johnson to depart the project. Why uptight? As a philosopher priest of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Rothko believed art’s dead serious purpose was to transform the viewer and evoke transcendence and the sublime. For John and Dominique...

Scope and Contents eceptively simple and emotionally charged, Mark Rothko’s abstract canvases are known to induce a contemplative, almost spiritual experience when viewed in person. In 1964, at the height of the artist’s fame, patrons Dominique and John de Menil commissioned him to create a multisensory space in Houston where visitors could be fully immersed in the painter’s world. His response was Rothko Chapel, an ecumenical sanctuary lined with 14 site-specific panels meant to inspire a meditative silence....

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An extensive renovation of Houston’s Rothko Chapel aims to honor the original vision of its creator, Mark Rothko.