Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and a central figure of Abstract Expressionism, best known for the color field paintings he produced from about 1949 onward, large canvases built from soft-edged rectangular blocks of luminous, layered color. He intended these works less as formal exercises than as vehicles for direct emotional and spiritual experience, an ambition that culminated in his late-career mural cycle for the Rothko Chapel in Houston, which he considered his most important artistic statement. Rothko's paintings, prized for the intensity of feeling produced through pure color relationships alone, now rank among the most highly valued works of postwar American art.
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Mark Rothko ( ROTH-koh; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born American abstract painter.
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Rothko was born in 1903 in Dvinsk (now
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Mark Rothko ( ROTH-koh; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born American abstract painter.
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was a Latvian-born American
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until 1940; September 25, 1903
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On February 25, 1970, Oliver Steindecker, Rothko's assistant, found the artist lying dead on the kitchen floor in front of the sink
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Rothko was born in 1903 in Dvinsk (now
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Mark Rothko ( ROTH-koh; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970) was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. 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.
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In the summer of 1933, Rothko had his first one-man show at the Portland Art Museum
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