both the sweet and the bitter

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rthko

Mark Rothko on the "recipe of a work of art," lecture at the Pratt Institute, 1958:

1. There must be a clear preoccupation with death—intimations of mortality... Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.

2. Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.

3. Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.

4. Irony. This is a modern ingredient—the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.

5. Wit and Play..for the human element.

6. The ephemeral and chance...for the human element.

7. Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

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Late Roman stone mosaic from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, Caria (modern Bodrum, Turkey), dated 4th century AD, now in the British Museum. A coloured laurel wreath encloses a Greek inscription with the following words:

ฮฅฮ“ฮ™ฮ‘ "Health"
ฮ–ฮŸฮ— "Life"
ฮงฮ‘ฮกฮ‘ "Joy"
ฮ•ฮ™ฮกฮ—ฮฮ— "Peace"
ฮ•ฮฅฮ˜ฮฅฮœฮ™ฮ‘ "Happiness"
ฮ•ฮ›ฮ ฮ™ฯน "Hope"

๐Ÿ›๏ธ: ยฉ The Trustees of the British Museum

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