Rothko paintings.

It's interesting to note how completely Rothkos method of painting and producing images,so completely identifies with his aesthetic conception and subject matter.Rothko method of using thin washes,that dematerialise into the weave of the canvas,the complete fushion of surface and paint and the simplicity of form create a medative mood in the viewer. The subject matter is one of universal immateriality, in which the presence of artistic gesture is completely absent, and therefore so is the artists presence. At this stage Rothko describes the feeling of " the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea,and between the idea and the observer" The images eliminate the iconography of cultural and historical  memory .Rothko states that he is for the " the simple expression of the complex thought". Jonathen Fineburg describes the subjective experience of the viewers encounter with the indescribable painted object ,provides a foundation for the defining of object and self and how they relate.The work does not describe experience the works are an experience .Due to the large scale of the work the viewer is in and surrounded by the image. " We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal to quote the artist.