No. 8 (1964)
On 27 October 1958, Mark Rothko gave a lecture at the Pratt Institute, in which he listed his 7 ingredients for art:
1. There must be a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality….Tragic art, romantic art, etc., deals with the knowledge of death.
2. Sensuality. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.
3. Tension. Either conflict or curbed desire.
4. Irony. This is a modern ingredient - the self effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else.
5. Wit and play…for the human element.
6. The ephemeral and chance…for the human element.
7. Hope. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.
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