
🇫🇮☠ 𝑶𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒔 ☠🇫🇮
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🇫🇮☠ 𝑶𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒔 ☠🇫🇮
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Your first instinct is correct btw. This isn’t beautiful, this isn’t a masterpiece. In order for you to think it’s anything of the sort you have to override your innate understanding of beauty and the sublime and try and cognitively brute force yourself into viewing it as something that it is not. Often times this is done through an egotistical identification with “high society.” If this is valued in the millions by “experts” and it is considered “high status” to enjoy it, if I don’t also try and convince myself I enjoy it, I am a mere pleb. Beauty is in fact, objective, and we have an innate understanding and perceptual relationship with beauty. Rothko paintings are nothing of the sort.



@FedPoasting It's something a kindergartener could do and will be sold for more than the average salary in the US.

@TheAgreementist When you look at a sunset you instinctively revere its beauty. Beauty is an embodied, instinctive response. It “insists upon itself.” It does not need to be rationalized.



‘Four Darks in Red’ by Rothko (1958). At the Whitney Museum. The heaviness of the black panel sinks into the painting. The weight. The burden. All else loses focus.



This makes viscerally angry yet I can’t quite put my finger on why




