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Mark Rothko

1903-1970

American (Latvian Born) Abstract Expressionist  Painter
 

Stylistically influenced by the following painters and movements - Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb, Max Weber, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault

Education - New School of Design, where he studied under Arshile Gorky
 

Cause of Death - Suicide, he slashed his wrists after years of suffering from declining health. He was 68..
 

 White over Red
White over Red Art Print
Rothko, Mark
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  Violet, Green and Red, 1951
Violet, Green and Red, 1951 Art Print
Rothko, Mark
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  White over Red
White over Red Art Print
Rothko, Mark
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"The unfriendliness of society to his activity is difficult for the artist to accept. Yet this very hostility can act as a lever for true liberation. Freed from a false sense of security and community, the artist can abandon his plastic bank-book, just as he [she] has abandoned other forms of security. Both the sense of community and of security depend on the familiar. Free of them, transcendental experiences become possible."- Mark Rothko
“I became a painter because I wanted to raise painting to the level of poignancy of music and poetry.” - Mark Rothko Quote


"Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars". - Mark Rothko

"Mute icons are the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today." - Mark Rothko

The  Abstract Expressionist Movement
 

  
Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky is considered as the father of abstract art.  In 1910 he exhibited the first totally abstract painting - a  mysterious and sensual watercolor. Abstract art is based upon the idea that the spiritual and emotional aspect of art  must be unchained from the figurative form. The movement was a rebellion against overwrought portraiture and trite historical themes. The artists dissociated themselves from representational art and emphasized emotional colors, non-objective forms, structure and composition. Abstractionists painted for themselves creating art for arts sake. They worked only from an inner vision and applied paint in a loose, vigorous manner creating beautiful intellectual poems.  Abstract Expressionism is a movement that grew out of the abstract style, originating in the United States in after World War II. Painters created vivid art-works in many diverse styles, using a variety of mediums. They emphasized uninhibited personal expression on very large canvases.

 		  
Key terms associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement - non-objective, modernism, non representational art, action painting, automatism, individualism, unconscious determinants, contemporary, colour navigation, avant-garde, emotionalism, post-modernism, art concrete, psychoanalysis, inner psyche, multiform  
   

Major Painters of the Abstract Expressionist Movement

Helen Frankenthaler
Arshile Gorky
Adolph Gottlieb
Hans Hofmann
Jasper Johns
Franz Kline
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
 

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