2003
In 1958, during a conference at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, Mark Rothko listed the seven necessary ingredients for “a recipe of a work of art”:
1. A clear awareness of death. All art is in relation with death
2. Sensuality, necessary to represent the world in a concrete way
3. Tension, that is to say the conflicts or desires that in art are dominated the very moment they are shown
4. Irony, a modern ingredient. A form of self deletion, and at the same time of self analysis, through which man can, at least for a moment, get away from his destiny
5. Wit, humour
6. Some grams of ephemeral and some grams of chance
7. A ten percent of hope… only if you need it; Greek didn’t have
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