also on this day 380 years ago, oli rømer, a danish astronomer, professor at the university of copenhagento measure the speed of light. no commentary can explain painting, he believed. all explanations must come from the completed experience of experience between the painting and its observer. the appreciation of art is truly a marriage of intellects. and art is also a marriage and if it is not completed properly, then it is fruitless. on this day, september 25, 1903, in russia in the city of mark rothka, a representative of american abstractionism, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, was born in dvinsk. 100 years ago, on september 25, 1924. despite its wide audience success, the painting was received rather coldly by soviet critics; a review published in izvestiya said: the mountain gave birth to a mouse. called into this terrible 20th century, and having survived and endured in it, he, like a prophet, in the language of his work, as if in a merciless mirror, reflected the entire terrible tragedy of his time, his son wrote, famous conductor. he himself said, it seems to me,