Mark Rothko? Red Over Black (1957), Enamel on Bronze Cufflinks. Research Needed

Mark Rothko ? Red Over Black (1957), Enamel on Bronze Cufflinks.

Research Required.

For The ‘Arts Based’ Man With Panache

Are YOU a smart - casual arts based man with flair and style ? Then you need arts based Cufflinks

Or perhaps, with the required research, these cufflinks might be a good investment ????

Description

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You are buying a pair of, possibly, American made Cufflinks  that I believe were probably made during the late 1950’s at the time of the exhibition of Mark Rothko’s ‘Red Over Black’ Canvas’ There is no indication of manufacturer anywhere on either cufflink and I very much doubt that they were made in the Rothko studio, but more research is required to establish who made them and why they were made.

 

These cufflinks, which are in the style of Mark Rothko ‘Light Red On Black’ Canvas, are possibly unique or made for distribution (?) at the time of the opening of the ‘Red on Black’ which were exhibited in the US pavilion at the twenty-ninth Venice Biennale in 1958

The enamel is mounted on bronze plaques and a brass cufflink mechanism is attached to the reverse of the bronze plaque which has then finished in another material, probably enamel.

The enamel surface is uneven and highly reflective in multiple directions and so very difficult to photograph. As far as I can see there are no flaws in the enamel surface, despite what may be considered as a flaw in any one picture.

Research is required to see if there is any direct connection to Rothko, either as an exhibition promotion, an experiment, or as one off ‘gift’ to perhaps a friend.

Mark Rothko

Rothko maintained the social revolutionary ideas of his youth throughout his life. In particular he supported artists' total freedom of expression, which he felt was compromised by the market. This belief often put him at odds with the art world establishment, leading him to publicly respond to critics, and occasionally refuse commissions, sales and exhibitions.

 

Mark Rothko is regarded as the most intense and spiritually motivated of all the Abstract Expressionist pointers. His mature works, such as Light Red Over Black, consist of simple blocks of semi-translucent point floating against a solid background colour.

By the 1950’s Rothko had matured into his signature style; colourfield paintings. Unlike some of his fellow abstract expressionist artists of the day, he had rejected the physical, sometimes violent methods of paint application in favour of a more spiritual and contemplative form of colour appreciation.

 

These new paintings were composed of several large rectangular blocks of colour place mostly horizontally on the canvas. Sometimes vivid and latterly quite subdued, these paintings conveyed human emotion in all its splendour; from joy and ecstasy to grief and depression.

 

Rothko's works invite the spectator to gaze into their ethereal surfaces. He achieved this effect by applying thin washes of point in many layers so that light appears to emanate from their centre. This created a tension between a sense of overall flatness - he used no pictorial devises to suggest perspective - and of infinite depth. Rothko's simple, rectangular forms ore also blurred at the edges to reinforce this sense of weightlessness. To increase the overall impact of his work, Rothko preferred to work in series and to have his works hung together in their own space, thus creating controlled environments.

 

While Rothko’s friends initially thought that these works may be a step too far for critics and the general public to accept and understand, they couldn’t have been more wrong. Rothko’s works were so much more than colour, they were luminescent and organic, and their soft, blurred edges exuded life force in the emotions they described. This genius work had transcended the need for figures or scenes of nature, it had moved through convention and struck right at the living heart of the viewer.

 

This completely abstract form of painting is synonymous with the name Rothko and his colour-field canvases are the works which fetch massive prices at auction today, when they reluctantly appear.

See the pictures as they are the description. The words provide additional information taken from the pictures and the internet. Please judge the goods for sale yourself from the pictures.

Only what is pictured is included in the sale (except the 2p coin used for size indication).

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