The 1000++ Artworks of media Acrylic and containing the word mark rothko, marcus rothkowitz, acrylic, abstract expressionism, 1950

Two candy apple-red, horizontal rectangles with soft, blurry edges sit one over the other, separated and surrounded by a thin border of carnation red in this nearly square abstract painting. The top rectangle takes up the top third of the composition and the larger rectangle is below.

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In the pivotal year of 1949, Rothko distanced himself from his Surrealist-inspired work of the 1940s and began to explore pure abstraction by painting soft-focus squares in diaphanous colors. 1949 is also the year that Matisse's 1911 painting The Red Studio, in which the artist's room is subsumed by...

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When asked about the 'grey and black' paintings, Rothko said, quite simply, that they were about death. They are desolate, empty images, but they also afford a richly ambiguous visual experience. Their landscape like qualities, with the black at the top — an Arctic wasteland under a vast and empty s...

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