Mark Rothko’s Artistic Concept And Artistic Creation Exploration

As a typical representative of the American abstract expressionist movement,Mark Rothko in its nearly 50 years of artistic exploration,successfully learn the art of modernist fruitful results,combined with their own artistic innovation at the same time,devoted his life to the innovation and reform of the artistic style,to abstract expressionism and painting color gamut contributed own strength.At the same time,his ideas on art theory and art study not only for their own creative practice played a thought instruction,at the same time,the idea itself also has a very high artistic value,mostly on academic history of Rothko as a representative of the abstract expressionism and color gamut of painting was studied,but rarely to change to explore its artistic conception and style,Therefore,there is a lack of a comprehensive understanding of Rothko’s artistic thoughts.This paper intends to take Rothko’s artistic ideas as the breakthrough point,and explore the art theory that has a great influence on him,and at the same time,integrate the art practice of various stages of Rothko,so as to feel the academic value of Rothko’s art.The first chapter mainly discusses Rothko and its ideological origin of art,understand the art of Rothko personal experience to grasp its several important stages in the development of art,for example by the first portraits of the early stage,to the surrealism creation stage,to the composite form of stage,finally the big color gamut drawing period,for us from the overall perspective of the changing process of the idea,At the same time,Rothko was influenced by Nietzsche’s tragic spirit and Freud’s psychoanalysis.The second chapter discusses Rothko’s concept of art,that is,the discussion about what art is.Art exists not only as an expression of emotion,but also as a symbol of tragic consciousness.At the same time,art is an abstraction,that is,the essence of art.Abstract concreteness can be expressed in his concept as the "plasticity" of art and the reality of artistic touch.Art also exists as communication,which is the core and key of Rothko’s concept.He emphasizes that art is an immersive experience of painting,and he removes the obstacles to artistic interpretation.The concept of open space indicates that the work of art and the audience should be in a state of communication and dialogue;The third chapter discusses the Rothko development of artistic style,with early and late two stages is given priority to,main is in his early is the main dependence of symbolic art is the art of performance,namely,the ideas of expressionism and surrealism had matting effect to the development of art exchange ideas,Rothko art works not only show the living space of modernity,At the same time also in myth has stronger metaphorical theme,while the late start to the typical abstract style,while it is to rely on the art of communication effect,the author tried to use color and interaction of harmony and the fuzziness of line and space to show a Rothko art abstract spirit;The last chapter focuses on the analysis of the significance of Rothko’s art.Rothko’s artistic concept in the communication of art promoted the change of his painting form,which transformed the figurative artistic expression into the abstract painting form.At the same time,the way of art viewing changed,and the development direction of modern art became more diversified.Artistic language changes bring abstract art to promote the renewal of art form,Rothko,with its unique artistic vision to watch in the form of a changed the past forms of visual experience,but also subverts the traditional human visual aesthetic perception,and his artistic pursuit of openness and authoritarian nature harmonious unification of the two,This concept is the result and influence of the development of his art in communication,which brings new thinking for people to interpret his art,and also conveys a kind of emotion and concept expression for the development of abstract art.