Kunwu Compadre Review

When you think critically about something for a long time, you come to a certain understanding about that thing. And you recognize others who have done the same by their opinions and preferences. This is why art critics can look at something like Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals, with its simple bands of color and understand via a strong consensus that it is a masterpiece. When I first saw the Seagram Murals (notably the paintings outlasted the company—Seagrams ceased to operate as independent company in 2000) I thought to myself, like I am sure a lot of people do when looking at Rothko’s work: I could do that. The answer, of course, is twofold—first, no you can’t; and second, no you didn’t. Getting the colors as somber and the tones to match to evoke the mood Rothko was intending is hard, hard work. But making and pairing the colors is only part of the complexity. The actual paintings themselves have incredible brushwork to the point that individual strokes seem to fade into a whole.…