End of 2023, I had a chance to revisit the National Gallery of Art in D.C. after my initial visit more than ten years ago. With more art education in the past decade, I felt more free to roam around the museum and find artworks I could connect with. This time, I found Mark Rothko’s work very intriguing. Because they’re all very simple rectangular color blocks stacking on each other.
But I don’t get tired of looking at them. Maybe because of Rothko’s choices of color? Or because when I look at the entire room of Rothko’s painting, I can imagine varieties of unknown worlds and stories, told by each different painting, yet composed by the same simple language.