Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko was an artist who emerged in the 1940s
as a new collective voice in American art. (1) Rothko had developed a passionate new form of abstract painting during his five decades of being an artist. His work paid close attention to formal elements such as: color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and scale. Rothko did not refer to his work in respect to simple elements, he said, It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. (1)
Mark Rothko was born with the name Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia on September 25, 1903. His family had immigrated to the United States when Mark was ten years old and they established themselves in Portland, Oregon. In 1921 Rothko went to Yale where he studied numerous subjects with the original intensions of becoming an engineer or an attorney. He left his......
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