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Mark RothkoAmerican Painter
By Kate Kerrigan
Who was Mark Rothko• He was born in Dvinsk,
Russia in 1903• Moved to Oregon in
1913• He was Jewish• Jews were not
accepted in Russia at this time
• Committed suicide in 1970
Important Personal Events
• Never finished college• When to art school at Art Student’s
League in New York• First started painting with Max Weber
and Adolph Gottlieb• They founded a school for one year• Then it became a club, called Ten, for
artists who were sympathetic to abstract and expressionist art
Important Historical Events• He had a job during the
Great Depression as a mural artist, later helping him with large-scale formats and broad flat areas of color
• Lived as a Jew during WWII, and was part of the abstract expressionist movement that happened after WWII
Unemployment line
D Day, when the U.S. invadedGerman land at the end of WWII
Stylistic Traits
• He went through many different art phases, but his most well known are his abstract paintings
• Oil paint• Bordered• Smudged colors, especially near
edges• Asymmetry/unbalanced• Layers the paint• All colors in the same color tone• Uses rectangles
Example
• Border• Smudged
colors near edge
• All colors are in the same tone
• Rectangles
Orange and Yellow by Mark Rothko (1956)
Example• Layers the paint• Border• Asymmetry• Smudged• Rectangles
Mark Rothko, Red, Orange, Tan and Purple, 1954.
The End
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