Simple expression of the complex thought

So this past week in New York i saw the new Mark Rothko Painting No. 16 at the MoMA. It was in another room away from the other two Rothkos that they have on display and it gave me quite a surprise. It's immense size was sweetly suffocating and  i haven't felt something like it  since the first time i walked into the Rothko room at the Tate Modern Museum in London. It touched me in such a way that I had to sit down. Everything that i was feeling was summed up on one piece of canvas. There is a famous Rothko quote hanging next to his piece in the Cincinnati Museum of Art which sums up his mission, "I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on". The scale and surface of his paintings reflect these ideas. With his paintings, Rothko dismissed the "canvas as a window onto another world", which is the Renaissance traditional three-point perspective. The multiple dark colors almost makes the painting's surface flat, but it abounds with energy, shaking the viewer with hands of emotion and provides depth. You can't help but to walk into the space it occupies and begin to reflect and make the painting your own; it's exactly what I did and what I continue to do with each new piece that I have the pleasure to view in person. On the MoMA's wall by the painting was this quote, "We favor the simple expression of complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth". This is what all artists, hell, all humans should strive for: the elimination of illusion and the revelation of truth. Only then are we truely living.