Untitled (#18), 1963 by Mark Rothko

Untitled (#18), 1963
by Mark Rothko

Untitled (#18), 1963 by Mark Rothko
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Let me present to you Mark Rothko, the laziest mofo to ever enter the art world. Not only can he only manage to use about 2 or 3 colours in his pictures...not only can he not be bothered to actually paint anything other than squares...but he also can't be bothered to name his pieces either!

Apparently he committed suicide by slashing his wrists in his studio. What a dick! This man had the easy life! One problem when finding his body was that he bled over a piece of canvas so his art friends weren't sure whether it was spilt blood on a piece of canvas or actually a piece of art.

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Sam
Poohsticks! I've got better wall paper than that!

Annie
Did he truly believe he was producing good art?

And modern art subscriber fucks, it is not we, those who desire to burn this shit, that are the philistines. No, I for one believe that there was enough beautiful art created before the 20th century to go an gush over. Givern freen reign, if this is what 20th century art is going to look like, these artists should get a heaircut and a real job and wake the fuck up. go get a medical degree of run of local government. AND JUST STOP PAINTING.

Human 524398472
Clearly the 'artist' drew every last scrap of inspiration for this 'work' from the title itself.

phoe
it looks like a very dark pieve of toast, half buttered

FLynn
Oh, and another thing. It's very likely these modern art sympathizers are also relativists who swim around on feathered clouds saying everyone is beautiful and lovely. Why - just look at Mr. Ted Bundy what a sweet charming man. Hey, here's one - you can call yourself a Doctor all you want but at the end of the day, are your patients walking the streets or are they bleeding on the table in a mangled carnage of flesh because you thought you were clever with a scalpel?

FLynn
cont'd... Are you self medicated, and do you believe everything they tell you in college? Honey, if that bed sheet is so darn beautiful to you, then paint that beautiful bedsheet to look like a bedsheet in all it's wonderous glory and capture the colors that the white reflects in the light and shade. But don't wipe your butt on the bed sheet, put it in a frame, call it art and propagate that message. I wish I could go on but unfortunately I have to get back to work in my REAL JOB.

FLynn
cont'd... And to all these people who defend this crap, like Susan who says, "'I've seen this up close and it's actually very beautiful. ...A plain, white sheet is lovely in it's own way, ..." HAH!!! I laugh at you.

FLynn
cont'd... Yeah, I took the art history classes too and I don't care how many pretentious arrogant delusional instructors tell me that it's brilliant and revolutionary - I still know it's crap. I guarantee that if you were to put this crap in front of one of the masters, say Rembrandt, he would either laugh or cry and it wouldn't be from joy or awe.

FLynn
Crap, Crap, and More Crap!!! ... don't get me started. The Emperor's New Art should be the title. I tell you, the artist, ol' Mr. Rothko, must have been a good con artist because he certainly was no visual artist. Let's call a spade a "spade" right? I mean, any child can look at an object and discriminate dog feces from something worthy of consumption (say an apple) - Right?!

squawkbox
no wonder this is untitled, its just a colour sampler

audiofest
Sycophant Simon Schama says these "throbbing works" talk to us just as well as a Rembrandt or a Michelangelo. I've already taught my son to identify crap art and it's amazing as he walks through the gallery and points out these joke paintings.

Stavros
I've seen better looking goats

ricardo
guff.....

Hammer
Must have taken minutes to do that, used all of the painters talent too, bet the next one was jus ta blank canvas!

spirit of Dali
Like I always said, people paint abstract "art" because they have nothing to say- or to show, for that matter.
I heard that Rothko started painting these squares as a way to say "screw you" to the rich patrons who commisioned paintings for a restaurant. But holier -than- thou "art" snobs ignore that, of course.
Just like they ignore that Picasso was a self-admitted fraud.
I learned a lot about self-promotion from him, you know, but at least I could really paint.

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