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    Mark Rothko ( IPA: / ˈrɒθkoʊ /, 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. Although Rothko did not personally ...

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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.

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  3. Mark Rothko is a key figure in Abstract Expressionism, best known for his large color field paintings like No.61 (Rust and Blue) (1953). Born Markus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russian Empire (now Latvia) in 1903, Rothko and his family immigrated to the United States in 1913. He began his undergraduate studies at Yale University in 1921 but left two ...

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    • September 25, 1903
    • Daugavpils, Latvia
    • February 25, 1970
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  4. 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 ...

  5. Learn about Mark Rothko, a prominent American painter who moved from figurative to abstract styles and expressed his emotional content through color and form. Explore his life, accomplishments, and artistic legacy, as well as his famous Color Field paintings and quotes.

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    • September 25, 1903
    • Dvinsk, Russian Empire
    • February 25, 1970
  6. Learn about the life and works of Mark Rothko, a preeminent abstract painter of the New York school. Explore his classic paintings of the 1950s, characterized by large scale, color contrasts, and philosophical themes.

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  8. THE CLASSIC PAINTINGS. 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 explaining the meaning ...

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