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the abstract expressionism of men like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Although Rothko himself refused to … Their sombre intensity reveals the deep mysticism of Rothko’s later years. 25 September 1903 in Dvinsk, Russia [now Daugavpils, Latvia]; d. 25 February 1970 in New York City), major abstract artist in the New York School of painting that emerged after World War II.Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz, the fourth and youngest child of the Russian Jews Jacob Rothkowitz and Kate Goldin Rothkowitz. Rothko’s ethereal horizontal lozenges of colour, hovering against a vertically oriented ground (as in
Rothko's bestknown paintings of the 1950s and 1960s continued to be associated with this general style.But Rothko's art reveals a distinct and personal interpretation of the abstract expressionist style.
Mark Rothko (/ˈrɒθkoʊ/), born Markus Yakovlevich Rotkovich (Russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, Latvian: Markuss Rotkovičs; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent.
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He later traveled extensively in Europe.In 1935 Rothko cofounded "The Ten," an organization of expressionist artists in New York.
For extensive periods throughout his career Rothko taught at colleges and universities, including the Center Academy in Brooklyn (1929-1952), the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (summers of 1947 and 1949), Brooklyn College (1951-1954), the University of Colorado (1955), and Tulane University (1956).Rothko's first important one-man show in 1945 at the Art of This Century Gallery in New York City established him as a leading figure in postwar American painting.
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25 września 1903 w Dyneburgu, zm.
He attended Yale University (1921-1923), and he began painting in 1925, when he studied with Max Weber at the Art Students League in New York.
Instead, Rothko concentrated on expression through color alone, and to this end he radically simplified his imagery.
Despite their large size, however, his paintings derived a remarkable sense of intimacy from the play of From 1958 to 1966 Rothko worked intermittently on a series of 14 immense canvases (the largest was about 11 × 15 feet [3 × 5 metres]) eventually placed in a nondenominational chapel in Houston, Texas, called, after his death, the Rothko Chapel.
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…involved in the group, notably Rothko and Newman, downplayed the expressive mark in favour of vast expanses of colour, which were intended to instill a sense of awe in the spectator.
25 lutego 1970 w Nowym Jorku) – amerykański malarz, przedstawiciel color field painting Życiorys. This meant that his art leaned both toward the problems of formal abstraction and toward a more traditional notion of conceptualized subject matter. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Rothko spent the rest of his life refining this basic style through continuous simplification.
History at your fingertips In his best paintings, the imagery consists of two or three rectangles of color that float within an abstract space.
Był ostatnim z czworga dzieci aptekarza Jakowa Rothkowitza i Anny Goldin. In 1948 he joined Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, and William Baziotes in founding a New York art school called "Subjects of the Artist."