“I told Rothko on several occasions that he should abandon such nonsense, forget this myth thing, which he was tying up with the Greeks, . . . and his fuzzy Bauhaus cultural associations. [He] was very happy to leave the rigor I set with the creative act for his steady manufacture of varieties of rectangles.” ‘Lifeline: Clyfford Still,’ Documentary.

I often think about what Still said and what Rothko was producing works like  ‘Two Greens With Red Stripe’

Mark Rothko,
No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe), 1964,
oil on canvas,
93″ × 69″ (236.2 cm × 175.3 cm),
#75414,
Format or original photography: high res TIF