Sep. 25:Mark Rothko,

 

National Gallery of Art

 

“If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom.”

Mark Rothko aspired to create paintings about the experience of painting that in turn engaged his viewers emotionally. The artist was born Markus Rothkowitz on this day in 1903. He emigrated from Russia as a boy, living with his family in Portland, Oregon. Rothko became a citizen in 1938 and changed his name from Rothkowitz to Roth⋯⋯

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

“Silence is so accurate.” — Mark Rothko, born on this day in 1903. https://met.org/2DulfqF

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“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer.” Remembering #MarkRothko, born #otdin 1903 👉tsc.hn/49230fb

Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz, was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an abstract expressionist. Wikipedia

Born: September 25, 1903, Daugavpils, Latvia

Died: February 25, 1970, New York City, New York, United States

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Mark Rothko was born on this day in 1903. “Untitled No. 11, 1963” is on view in the Bloch Building. “Untitled, No. 11, 1963” belongs to a series of works known as the "dark paintings." Prior to this body of work, Rothko produced paintings similar in form, but of intensely rich and varied colors. When a new generation of critics began discussing his pulsing chromatic works in formalist terms, as expressions of color relationships only, Rothko began painting in dark tones, in defiance of their limited interpretations.