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ROTHKO, Mark
1903 Dvinsk (Lithuania) – 1970 New York. Contemporary painting
Rothko’s family emigrated to Oregon when he was seven years old. Together with Adolph Gottlieb he founded the Expressionist group The Ten in 1935. In about 1938 he began to take an interest in Surrealism and engaged in the study of Greek mythology and metaphysics, Jung’s theory of archetypes and primitive art. He produced his first pictures depicting forms floating in space from 1947. Three years later he had evolved his distinctive manner, In 1949 he founded with William Baziotes, Motherwell and Newman the Subject of the Artist School, which only functioned for a year. He taught until 1955 at its successor Studio 35.
In 1950 he travelled in Europe, and from 1951-1954 he taught as assistant professor at Brooklyn College. In 1958 he received the lucrative commission of painting a mural in the Seagram Building. After 1960 his palette became noticeably darker and gloomier. In 1964 he decorated a chapel in Houston designed by Philip Johnson for Jean and Domique De Menil. He was one of the most significant representatives of flat area colour painting.
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