Mark Rothko: colour and emotion | how do I feel today?
On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the artist's birthday, we shall make a study of Mark Rothko, analysing his works and the way he paints them. We shall approach this experiential process in a conscious and concentrated way, with the aim of handling the various emotions we wish to express through colour. I 'feel' a certain colour, while successive strips of colour generate physical and mental energy.
We shall work in an abstractive way with large expanses of colour and we shall study the he canvases of Rothko which hypnotise us with the energy they exude and urge us to travel within them. Indeed, are they windows to the light or doors that shut you off?
Materials furnished to participants: brushes, canvases, 50x70cm aquarelle paper and acrylic colours
Emilia Tsekoura
Born in Athens, Emilia Tsekoura studied at the Art Communication & Learning team in Athens (1978-80), at the Boston Museum’s School of Fine Arts (1980-84) and at the same time at Tufts University, graduating with a Bachelor in Arts & Sciences.
Between 1988 and 2013, Emilia taught at the Athens College using differentiation teaching, art therapy and the method of Harvard University’s Project Zero (TFU, Visual Thinking). To this day she has had several solo shows in Greece and the US and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.
She is motivated by concepts originating from her own nature and expressed in autobiographical and expressionist ways: woman, Goddess/Idol, birth, genesis, the ovoid, rebirth. The philosophy of constant change in life, nature and art is always the key principle behind her every work.
One element in her art is symbolism and the translation of icons into archetypes. The egg, the sphere, the round, the zero or “nothing” and their reflections, the heart, the spiral, the geometries of nature and many other familiar symbols and concepts appear in various guises, media and materials throughout her artistic course.
She works in Athens and teaches at the art workshops of Fougaro in Nafplio since 2013.
