In a message dated 4/4/10 7:31:03 PM, [email protected] writes:
> At one point > Rothko (played energetically by Alfred Molina) rattles off the names of a > dozen > or so different hues, > I bungled that line. I should have said "...a dozen or so hues/shades of red." "The newspaper picture I saw of the set of the Red play showed a vertical floating shape ptg. But Rothko didn't make any vertical floating shapes. I suspect that was done to avoid trivializing his work for the play." The canvases in the play are very large. Seen from the audience, the images didn't come across as floating. The producer told me that they have to be painted anew every night because after a few days, when the paint dries thoroughly, the red loses its startling glisten. They're all replicas of what Rothoko originally did for the Four Seasons restaurant. They're all now in the "Rothko room" in a London museum, where I'm told the collective effect is far more powerful than a single painting might suggest.
