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Reflections on Rothko at the Louis Vuitton Foundation
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Reflections on Rothko at the Louis Vuitton Foundation

on the artist life, fame & returning to pockets of silence

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Samuél Lopez-Barrantes
Nov 22, 2023
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I’m at the Mark Rothko retrospective at the Louis Vuitton Foundation and I’m thinking about returning to the simplicity of forms—trying to recall that primordial conviction that leads us back to the creative source.1   

A question: is it a truism that the artist must journey through strife, anonymity, public recognition and self-importance before returni…

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