Simon Schama on Rothko

I've just been crying myself wet straight thru Simon Schama's Power Of Art on BBC 2 - Just how powerful is art? Mark Rothko believed that tradition was all used up; that figurative art no longer had what it took to connect us, viscerally, to the human tragedy. A fantastically told story of an artists soul in torment of the world to come and what became today...

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