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Chroma'c  Abstrac'on/  Color  Field  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  Rothko’s  style  evolved  over  'me  

Mark  Rothko,  An#gone,  c.  1941  Na'onal  Gallery  of  Art  

Mark  Rothko,  Slow  Swirl  at  the  Edge  of  the  Sea,  1944  Museum  of  Modern  Art  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  1947-­‐1949  Rothko  began  series  of  mul'-­‐form  canvases  

Mark  Rothko,  Number  7,  1947  Guggenheim  Museum  

Mark  Rothko,  Un'tled  (Mul'form),  1948  Collec'on  of  Kate  Rothko  Prizel  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  1949  “classic”  style  

Canvases  typically  consist  of  soQ  edged  rectangles  stacked  on  the  canvas  

Mark  Rothko,  No.  3/No.  13,  1949  Museum  of  Modern  Art  

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Mark  Rothko,  Green  and  Maroon,  1953  Phillips  Collec'on   Mark  Rothko,  Ochre  and  Red  on  Red,  1954  

Phillips  Collec'on  

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Mark  Rothko  No.  20  1957  Na'onal  Gallery  of  Australia  

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Mark  Rothko  White,  Red,  on  Yellow  1958  Metropolitan  Museum  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  Rothko’s  method  of  working  was  different  from  the  “ac'on  painters”  

Rothko  in  his  West  53rd  Street  studio,  pain'ng  what  may  be  a  version  of  Un#tled,1952-­‐1953  (Guggenheim  Museum,  Bilbao),  photograph  by  Henry  Elkan,  c.  1953  

Na'onal  Gallery  of  Art  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  Thin  washes  of  color  

Rothko  in  his  West  53rd  Street  studio,  pain'ng  what  may  be  a  version  of  Un#tled,1952-­‐1953  (Guggenheim  Museum,  Bilbao),  photograph  by  Henry  Elkan,  c.  1953  

Na'onal  Gallery  of  Art  

Henri  Ma'sse,  Red  Studio,  1911  Museum  of  Modern  Art  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  Envisioned  his  pictures  as  “environments,”  rather  than  “pictures”  

Viewer  looking  at  a  Mark  Rothko  pain'ng  in  the  Na'onal  Gallery  of  Art,  Washington  DC  Image  source:    hbp://www.societyofcomposers.org/user/williamdougherty.html  

Mark  Rothko,  1961  Image  source:    hbp://www.portlandart.net/archives/2009/07/the_rothko_brid.html  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  Medita've  environment;  doorway  to  another  reality  

A  woman  views  Mark  Rothko's  'Orange,  Red,  Yellow',  1956  on  display  May  9,  2008  at  Sotheby's  in  New  York  hbp://www.independent.co.uk/arts-­‐entertainment/art/features/mark-­‐rothko-­‐s'll-­‐hip-­‐to-­‐be-­‐square-­‐940133.html  

“Rothko  wrote  that  the  great  ar's'c  achievements  of  the  past  were  pictures  of  the  human  figure  alone  in  a  moment  of  uber  immobility.  He  sought  to  create  his  own  version  of  this  solitary  medita've  experience,  scaling  his  pictures  so  that  the  viewer  is  enveloped  in  their  luminous,  atmospheric  surface.”  Tate  Gallery  

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"Small  pictures  since  the  Renaissance  are  like  novels;  large  pictures  are  like  dramas  in  which  one  par'cipates  in  a  direct  way."  Mark  Rothko  

Image  source:    hbp://www.interna'onalheralddailynews.org/world_arts1.htm  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  The  “black  form”  pain'ngs  seem  to  look  out  into  an  expansive  abyss  

Mark  Rothko,  No.  7,  1964  Na'onal  Gallery  of  Art  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  The  Roman'c  Sublime  -­‐-­‐  the  sense  of  awe  we  experience  when  confronted  with  the  boundlessness  of  nature  

Caspar  David  Friedrich,  Monk  by  the  Seashore,  1809-­‐10  Staatliche  Museum,  Berlin    

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  Seagrams  commission  violated  his  ideas  about  the  purpose  of  his  pain'ngs  

Mark  Rothko’s  Seagrams  Murals,  as  installed  at  the  Tate  Gallery  MSNBC  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  Rothko  Chapel  –  realiza'on  of  his  dream  of  a  “sacred  art”  

Rothko  Chapel,  Houston  Texas  Founded  by  John  and  Dominique  de  Menil  in  1971  as  an  in'mate  sanctuary  available  to  people  of  every  belief  hbp://www.rothkochapel.org/  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  

Image  source:    hbp://thisvignebe.com/  

“By  the  late  '50s  Rothko  was  a  very  successful  painter,  and  he  hated  it.  .  .  .  .  "I  have  imprisoned  the  most  uber  violence  in  every  inch  of  their  surface,"  he  claimed.  But  the  more  violence  Rothko  pumped  into  the  pictures,  the  more  plush  and  collec'ble  they  turned  out  to  be  .  .  .  Christopher  Benfey,  Slate.com  

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Mark  Rothko  (1903-­‐1970)  

Mark  Rothko  in  his  West  53rd  Street  studio,  c.  1953,  photograph  by  Henry  Elkan,  courtesy  Archives  of  American  Art,  Smithsonian  Ins'tu'on;  Image  source:    hbp://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/intro1.shtm  

“Meanwhile,  he  is  chain-­‐smoking,  drinking  heavily,  and  abusing  barbiturates  .  .  .  He  has  a  heart  aback  in  1968,  leaves  his  wife  in  1969,  and  on  Feb.  25,  1970,  slits  his  wrists  and  dies  on  the  studio  floor.”  Christopher  Benfey,  Slate.com