Rothko or How to confront the silence of God

Rothko deals with human emotion, with the human drama, as much as I can possibly experience it. Art facilitates the invention of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer. Rothko creates an overwhelmingly sensory experience for the viewer through monumentality, simplicity and stillness. You should stand before a Rothko's painting as a religious experience. 

Rothko paintings shows the tragic mistery of our perishable condition. The silence of God, the unbearable silence of God. 

Immersive in a trascendent experience you are not looking at the paintings, you are in them and with them and within them. Wanted to make you feel the encounter with the undefinable to stay in the void. To confront universal tragedy. It's the painting above everything. A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience. When you look at Rothko's  paintings you are absorbed in its atmosphere. its projects in its colour, in its geometry but you have no references to the external world. It is a very spiritual, even transcendent experience fully resolved in an intensive chromatic picture that mixes light and colour. To experience the painting in a broad sense, in a very antropometric reference, Rothko reduces the painting to its essence. Its surrounds you. 

This painting develops in the post-war era in the moment where society presents some fundamental questions, this was the aftermath of the holocaust, and of the nuclear bomb. This is when important philosophical questions are being asked and Rothko is confronting those but it is not using the visual vocabulary of the past era, its shows how it is possible to touch the spiritual in our modern age. Spiritual and transcendent painting.