Humans don’t fear darkness, they fear the unknown that comes along with it, and it is through the unknown that we habitually find our most rural self. Fear is like death, it doesn’t care who you are, it attacks everyone equally. The common man doesn’t need to read 1,000 books to understand fear, they don’t need a doctorate degree to know agony, or a history lesson to learn about creation. Mark Rothko made a political statement by making his art an equalizer between humans. One of his last series “Black Form”, created in 1964, is centered around dark colors, blacks, browns, and deep blues. In exhibit today are: No.1, No.6, No. 7, and No.8, accompanied by Rapture, a sculpture by Kiki Smith. Viewers of this exhibition are recommended to lose themselves
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He recommended standing at a close proximity of 18 feet from his art work, as a result of this nearness the viewer and the art establish an immediacy. The closeness allows for the viewer to block out the world around them and become hypnotized by the colors with in the piece. Smith bronze sculpture, “Rapture”, highlights a sense of revival, a feeling many have expressed feeling after viewing Rothko’s work. Her sculpture illustrates a resurrection and birth story, the beginning of any human entering the world for the first time. Together the paintings and sculpture combine to target humans’ basic instincts. These artists strip down our barriers and make us reconnect with our fundamental sensations fear, agony, and …show more content…
“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:1)
Darkness isn’t the end it’s the beginning and we can not obtain light without darkness in order to survive we need to embrace both. A human shouldn’t fear night time because of its darkness, since its within this darkness that we sleep and recharge for another day. We could not successfully live without this period of the day. This cycle is common to every person; anyone can relate to this fundamental human need. It is because of darkness that we can exist to live in the
He recommended standing at a close proximity of 18 feet from his art work, as a result of this nearness the viewer and the art establish an immediacy. The closeness allows for the viewer to block out the world around them and become hypnotized by the colors with in the piece. Smith bronze sculpture, “Rapture”, highlights a sense of revival, a feeling many have expressed feeling after viewing Rothko’s work. Her sculpture illustrates a resurrection and birth story, the beginning of any human entering the world for the first time. Together the paintings and sculpture combine to target humans’ basic instincts. These artists strip down our barriers and make us reconnect with our fundamental sensations fear, agony, and …show more content…
“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:1)
Darkness isn’t the end it’s the beginning and we can not obtain light without darkness in order to survive we need to embrace both. A human shouldn’t fear night time because of its darkness, since its within this darkness that we sleep and recharge for another day. We could not successfully live without this period of the day. This cycle is common to every person; anyone can relate to this fundamental human need. It is because of darkness that we can exist to live in the