Sep 25
In honor of Mark Rothko’s birthday, we are revisiting a post originally published last year honoring the late artist’s life and work.
Today is the birthday of famed abstract painter, Mark Rothko. The Russian-American artist, known for his radiant rectangles of color, would turn 110 if he were still alive today.
We’re celebrating Rothko’s big day with a book published by Rizzoli New York. Titled “Mark Rothko, The Decisive Decade: 1940-1950,” the work examines what art critics claim is the formative period of art making for the great 20th century painter. It was during this period that Rothko’s expressive figurative and surrealist depictions transformed into the blocks of reds, yellows and blues that became his signature style.
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