Tag Archives: Mark Rothko

Siren

Posted on June 2, 2019 by John Biscello

Grief embraces change through form, exploded to shape a sense of calling. (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Red, Black

Posted on March 22, 2018 by John Biscello

To paint a blood-sport, matador, faring no bull– dark, in need of stars. (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Mark Rothko

Posted on March 21, 2018 by John Biscello

Rending light to fit an artist’s capacity to survive caste form. (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Horizon

Posted on March 20, 2018 by John Biscello

Some silence, you see, is not golden, not really– long dark shadow cast. (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Freeze

Posted on March 16, 2018 by John Biscello

Ice skating past dark, on a frozen pond, alone– Where they swam, last spring. (Artwork by Mark Rothko)

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Arclight

Posted on December 16, 2017 by John Biscello

Bidden by tatters, and gravity’s mutable arc, the palpitations guide me. They are subtle, duly engaged, a milk-slow run of shivers. Bracing the rim, I peer out of cavedark: everything is sudden, color-soaked, a ferocious din and melt, fringed shawls … Continue reading →

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Perish

Posted on November 9, 2017 by John Biscello

Man’s crisis of faith, bailing, fiercely, flames and dearth– How to birth perish.

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Yellow is the Color of my Sad

Posted on June 26, 2016 by John Biscello

Yellow is the color of my sad, how it runs. Some think it is blue but it is not. Blue is the common choice for color/me/sad, the popular one (how moods get typecast), but yellow is much sadder than blue, … Continue reading →

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Tinder

Posted on June 9, 2016 by John Biscello

In this lighted instance, a storm-watch of gold bearing the heft of silence and time, slowed. Blue shoulders the collapse of heaven, it is the Atlas underlay, the muscle cloud formation. When the painter dies, this tindered vault will inherit … Continue reading →

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Yellow Over Blue

Posted on April 26, 2016 by John Biscello

Yellow is the saddest color, she said. Some think it is blue, but it is not. Blue is the common choice for the color of sad, the popular one, but yellow is much sadder than blue. Yellow blinds you with … Continue reading →

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