Rothko created paintings like No.61 (Rust and Blue) intending to communicate the essence of the human condition. By focusing on the pure essence of color and structure, the artist wanted his …

He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally …

Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, on September 25, 1903. His parents were Jacob and Anna Goldin Rothkowitz, and Rothko was raised in a well-educated family …

Mark Rothko’s paintings are renowned for their luminous colour fields and profound emotional intensity. A key figure in Abstract Expressionism, Rothko abandoned figurative art in favour of …

View Mark Rothko’s 376 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on …

Rothko first developed this compositional strategy in 1947. Described as “Color Field painting” by critic Clement Greenberg in 1955—a term that stuck—it is a style characterized by significant …

To Rothko, the trademark "mature" paintings, the ones that became synonymous with his name, went beyond pure abstraction. Rothko, for whom "tragic experience is the only source book for …

He went on to employ that early sense of color with his inherent belief: “the exhilarated tragic experience is for me the only source of art,” as he created his Color Field paintings, celebrated …

Sep 25, 2025 · When you say Rothko, you think of large paintings of colorful rectangular form with frayed edges, horizontal, sometimes vertical as well, floating on a background of color. These …

Dec 13, 2025 · Mark Rothko was a painter whose works introduced contemplative introspection into the melodramatic post-World War II Abstract Expressionist school. His use of color as the …