These large-scale paintings emanate pure energy and astound the viewer with balanced composition in absence of any drawing whatsoever. The artists use pure colours, no shades, and explore the boundaries of the physical properties of colours and paints. The classic artist of the style, Mark Rothko, painted canvases 10 feet high.

When you gaze into the intense abyss of the colour plane you indulge in the energy flow and submerge into the basic, the most powerful emotions that come right from your heart and your human essence – the tragedy, the extasy, and excitement. The experience is close in its nature to religious revelation, and people crying in front of Rothko’s paintings prove that the artist made his point. For those who refuse to see it as “serious” art, here is something to think about. To the end of his life Mark Rothko turned to grey and black, his colours became gloomier. Yet in 1970 he came up with his last painting – bright, almost electric red… and cut his veins, found dead in a puddle of blood in his studio. How is that for meaningless scribbles? Self-expression and communication with the viewer can take various forms, and the overwhelming experience you receive in the presence of colour field paintings can only be explained by the discovery of the original essential connections between the colour and basic human emotions. It takes years of scrupulous observations, practice and experiments, and the tremendous artistic intuition to put two rectangles together that would make a viewer weep and kneel.