%0 Journal Article %T Retrato de uma ideia %A Anfam %A David %J ARS (S£¿o Paulo) %D 2011 %I Escola de Comunica??es e Artes da Universidade de S?o Paulo %R 10.1590/S1678-53202011000100005 %X how to reach the "abstract image" (pictorial scene) that became the 'signature' of the artist, a kind of method or plastic language that properly we recognize as a "rothko"? this text focuses on one hypothesis that this search is addressed first through a direct expression of subjective states, such as an idea or language of the emotions rather than the representational issues inherited from the tradition. %K rothko %K abstract painting %K subjectivity %K expression. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1678-53202011000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en