2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Mark
Rothko,
Green
and
Maroon,
1953
Phillips
Collec'on
Mark
Rothko,
Ochre
and
Red
on
Red,
1954
Phillips
Collec'on
8. 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
9. Mark
Rothko
(1903-‐1970)
Thin
washes
of
color
Henri
Ma'sse,
Red
Studio,
1911
Museum
of
Modern
Art
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
10. 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
Mark
Rothko,
1961
Image
source:
Image
source:
hbp://www.portlandart.net/archives/2009/07/the_rothko_brid.html
hbp://www.societyofcomposers.org/user/
williamdougherty.html
11. Mark
Rothko
(1903-‐1970)
Medita've
environment;
doorway
to
another
reality
“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
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
12. "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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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/
17. Mark
Rothko
(1903-‐1970)
“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
Image
source:
hbp://thisvignebe.com/
18. Mark
Rothko
(1903-‐1970)
“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
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
