Defacing Rothko painting more difficult than painting it
08-10-12
THE vandalism of a Mark Rothko painting is incredibly impressive when compared to the painting.
An anonymous attacker scrawled ‘Vladimir Umanets, A Potential Piece of Yellowism’ on the 1958 masterpiece that took Rothko about three minutes.
A spokesman for the Tate Modern, the new home of 2012′s The Rothko Defacement, said: “It is a curious, yet striking statement.
“Rather than just a series of fuzzy rectangles.”
