Success of a strange sort

The immediate conclusion from listening to what the people were saying about Rothko Art in the recording from Sky Arts is that they are all seriously weird or seriously disturbed!
    Some seemed to be looking for parallels with his life to make his story all about them. And making up their own stories about his paintings that contain people; before he eliminated them as surplus to requirements.
    Inspiring? Miraculous? Nah.
    Rothko eventually went for extreme visual complexity but on a huge scale that defeats close examination. Jackson Pollock did a better job with his drip paintings on a reasonable scale.