What Mark Rothko thinks about modern art & people Baum-Welch 2010-10-21 | This video is from "The Power of Art - Mark Rothko" by BBC."When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was an golden age, for we all had nothing to lose, and the vision, the gain. Today is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I will not venture to discuss. But I do know that many of those who were driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them."
What am I? - Beautiful life confession by Vincent Van Gogh Baum-Welch 2012-04-03 | This video is from "The Power of Art - Vincent Van Gogh" by BBC.
The most powerful closing ever made by Simon Shama Baum-Welch 2010-10-20 | This is the video from "The Power of Art - Mark Rothko". Just listen to Mr. Shamas' ending. Perfect in every sense."Can anything be less cool than this room, in the heart of Tate Modern? Further away from the razzle-dazzle of contemporary art, the frantic hassle of now. This isn't about now, this is about forever, this is a place where you come to sit in the low lights and feel the eons rolling by, to be taken towards the gates that open onto the thresholds of eternity, to feel an a poignancy of our comings and our goings. Our entrances and our exits are our births and our deaths. Womb, tomb and everything between. Can art ever be more complete, more powerful? I don't think so."
