Please stop and think just how much reason and common sense has to be removed from human intelligence and behavior to believe that this [Mark Rothko's
Erased DeKooning] is anything worth while to have done.
It would be a pathetic subject worthy of psychological analysis were it not actually given credibility by a powerful element of the art establishment.
So instead it falls into the domain of a pathetic sociological phenomenon, when a culture is so rich and so bored that they need to make up meaningless, inane and asinine concepts that they praise each other for having and doing.