Noun
United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970)
Source: WordNetAccording to Rosenblum, "Rothko, like Friedrich and Turner, places us on the threshold of those shapeless infinities discussed by the aestheticians of the Sublime. Source: Internet
A bit ago I wrote a piece called “5 Questions I Want to Ask the White Supremacists Who Vandalized the Rothko Chapel” in response to the dumping of white paint near the Broken Obelisk sculpture dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and the distributi. Source: Internet
However, by the late 1950s Color Field painting and Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko 's paintings became more in focus to the next generation. Source: Internet
It’s filled to the rafters with paintings and sculptures by the likes of Picasso, Dali, Warhol, and Rothko, all set off perfectly by that gritty industrial interior. Source: Internet
The estimate for “Untitled (Yellow and Blue)” is even higher because of the year Rothko painted it: 1954, when he was 51 and landed his first one-man exhibition at a major American museum, the Art Institute of Chicago. Source: Internet
Would-be radicals, once they move past the Rothko, will encounter a striking juxtaposition: Candida Höfer’s photo of a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Philadelphia synagogue next to the Impressionist Camille Pissarro’s painting of a church in Dieppe, France. Source: Internet