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Mark Rothko (IPA: / ˈ r ɒ θ k oʊ /), Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.
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Mark Rothko (IPA: ), Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.
1. He painted the world as he experienced it. Today, Rothko is famous for his abstract paintings. But as a young artist, he made works on canvas and paper with recognizable imagery: landscapes, city scenes, bathers, and portraits. Still, these paintings did not perfectly represent reality. By his late 20s, Rothko had developed a subjective ...
Summary of Mark Rothko. A prominent figure among the New York School painters, Mark Rothko moved through many artistic styles until reaching his signature 1950s motif of soft, rectangular forms floating on a stained field of color. Heavily influenced by mythology and philosophy, he was insistent that his art was filled with content, and ...
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- September 25, 1903
- Dvinsk, Russian Empire
- February 25, 1970
Apr 11, 2024 · Mark Rothko (born September 25, 1903, Dvinsk, Russian Empire [now Daugavpils, Latvia]—died February 25, 1970, Manhattan, New York, U.S.) was an American painter whose works introduced contemplative introspection into the melodramatic post-World War II Abstract Expressionist school. His use of color as the sole means of expression led to the ...
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Rothko, however, generally avoided explaining the content of his work, believing that the abstract image could directly represent the fundamental nature of "human drama." The Mark Rothko exhibition on which this web feature was based was a comprehensive retrospective of the artist's work. With 115 works on canvas and paper encompassing all ...
THE CLASSIC PAINTINGS. 1949 – 1959. Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1949, pigmented hide glue and oil on canvas, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.138. Mark Rothko largely abandoned conventional titles in 1947, sometimes resorting to numbers or colors in order to distinguish one work from another. The artist also now resisted ...
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