His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.

American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and rectangles had a long and intimate 20-year relationship. His paintings display almost exclusively those geometric shapes, that art critics describe as: ...

2023 has been the year of Mark Rothko. He is currently the subject of a landmark exhibition in Paris, which includes an impressive 115 paintings that redefines the celebrated Abstract Expressionist’s ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s easy to imagine Mark Rothko, American art’s high priest of the oppressive sublime, as having emerged fully formed. The dense fogs of color that define his iconic works obscure ...

“The progression of a painter’s work,” wrote Rothko, “as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity, toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, ...

It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...

Dark-hued paintings by artist Mark Rothko are the focal point of the meditative space inside Houston’s Rothko Chapel. Grant funding from a national bank will help Houston's iconic Rothko Chapel ...

In 1958, Mark Rothko received his first significant commission. The owners of the newly constructed Seagram Building on New York’s Park Avenue were on the hunt for artworks to fill its ground floor ...

April 28 (UPI) --Dutch curators are considering "next steps" after a child damaged a $56 million painting by American artist Mark Rothko while visiting a museum in Rotterdam. "The work by Rothko -- ...