Large-scale compositions comprised of horizontal bands of color protrude from the gallery wall. Nuanced, bold, and evocative. Mark Rothko believed that the painting, not the artist, should dictate the ...
The exhibition is rooted in Rothko’s distinct stylistic stages in the ’40s, from his early figurative works, to surrealist paintings influenced by mythology, to automationist abstractions informed by ...
Mark Rothko was the antithesis of pop art – he witnessed its birth and had little appreciation for it – and the immediate imprint left by a painting that has more in common with the effectiveness of a ...