Abstract expressionist

I went for a spin today with Dov Ber a unique sculptor and a mavin of modern art history.
TA: Dov Ber, what about Mark Rothko. He is mentioned sometimes as a Vitebsker but he is really a Dvinsker.
DB: He started as a surrealist and then along with Pollack became one of the most known abstract expressionist. At the end oh his life he was commissioned a series of paintings for an interdenominational chapel in Texas. He built the canvases and hung them in the space to see what they would look like. And he realized that he can not possibly add to the beauty of white on white.
TA: Didn�t Kazimir Malevich already proven this with his White on White series?
DB: Correct. But Rothko had to paint something on the canvases. He painted dark blues and grays and this triggered his depression. He felt that his art was compromised. A year later he took two sharp knifes under his elbows, he pulled the knifes forward and bled to death. Some say that he has fallen on a canvas, intentionally making it his last greatest painting.

Dov Ber in the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge an hour ago.

TA: Dov Ber, next week we should talk about Anthony Caro, an English sculptor who was a great grandson of the compiler of the Shulchan Oruch.