And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
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This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.Mark Rothko
From him I got my love for music, and for many years I was the classical music critic for magazines that have since folded, such as Musical America and High Fidelity. During the last year of his life, I would come to the studio, and he would arrange a corner for me with a canvas and paints. I don't think that I saw him paint. He didn't allow anyone to watch him. That was his own private affair.
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I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture.
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I have on occasion successfully dealt with this problem by tending to crowd the show rather than making it spare.
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We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
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