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1946, Mark Rothko, Omen [watercolor and ink] -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Omen echoes 17th-century paintings that show Jesus Christ being taken down from the cross after his death. The suggestion of a figure at right, with upstretched arms and dangling legs, evokes a lifeless body. Rothko felt that tragic biblical subjects of intense communal grief were emotionally relevant to his own time, as the world grappled with the brutality and terror of events like World War Il and the Holocaust.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.
1946, Mark Rothko, Omen [watercolor and ink] -- National Gallery of Art (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Omen echoes 17th-century paintings that show Jesus Christ being taken down from the cross after his death. The suggestion of a figure at right, with upstretched arms and dangling legs, evokes a lifeless body. Rothko felt that tragic biblical subjects of intense communal grief were emotionally relevant to his own time, as the world grappled with the brutality and terror of events like World War Il and the Holocaust.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.