Child damages €50m #Rothko painting in Dutch museum - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6dvdwjpj4o "The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has previously billed visitors who have caused damage to artworks on display."

Who knew this? *Any* of it? Read it in corporate media?

“Modern art was CIA 'weapon'”

by Frances Stonor Saunders in The Independent @Independent@flipboard.com
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“Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

Artist: #OakOak in City: somewhere in France 2024 - Title: "White blue" (aka "Free Rothko") - #Art #Streetart #Mural #Rothko #UrbanArt #Artwork #Painting #Oilpainting #LostPlaces #AFotoLove #UnpaintedPainting #Photography
"Pictures have to be mysterious."
("Bilder müssen geheimnisvoll sein.“)

Mark Rothko, ( b. 1903, Dvinsk, Russia—d. 1970, New York City, N.Y., U.S.), American painter whose works introduced contemplative introspection into the melodramatic post-World War II Abstract Expressionist school; his use of colour as the sole means of expression led to the development of Colour Field Painting.

Hard to see at first. They are only what they are. Colour. They are usually quite large. To stand in front of one means that your area of sight is full.

Purple Brown, 1957 #rothko #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/purple-brown

Untitled (Green on Blue), 1968 #rothko #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/untitled-green-on-blue-1968

Untitled, 1946 #americanart #rothko https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/not_detected_242122

Tentacles of Memory, 1946 #rothko #markrothko https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/tentacles-of-memory

White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 1950 #rothko #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/white-center

Rothko Chapel, 1967 #americanart #rothko https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/rothko-chapel-1967

Untitled (Standing Man and Woman), 1938 #rothko #markrothko https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/untitled-standing-man-and-woman-1938

Untitled (Gray, Gray on Red), 1968 #markrothko #rothko https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/not_detected_242137

Untitled (No. 17), 1961 #americanart #rothko https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/no-17-1961

Yellow band, 1956 #rothko #colorfieldpainting https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/yellow-band

Untitled, 1938 #rothko #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/untitled-15

Untitled (Gray and Mauve), 1969 #rothko #markrothko https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/untitled-gray-and-mauve-1969

Untitled (brown and gray), 1969 #colorfieldpainting #rothko https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/untitled-brown-and-gray