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1948 (ca.), Mark Rothko, Untitled [watercolor] -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label: Colorful, loosely painted abstractions like this one came to be known years later as multiforms. They represent a transitional period before Rothko developed his classic format. Squiggles and glyphs familiar from the artist's earlier work hint at a half-length figure -- torso, shoulders, and head -- emerging from a colorful soup. Meanwhile, two paintings nearby hover on the brink of Rothko's classic style, as passages of color come together into rectangles that seem to shift and pulse in an undefined space.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.
1948 (ca.), Mark Rothko, Untitled [watercolor] -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label: Colorful, loosely painted abstractions like this one came to be known years later as multiforms. They represent a transitional period before Rothko developed his classic format. Squiggles and glyphs familiar from the artist's earlier work hint at a half-length figure -- torso, shoulders, and head -- emerging from a colorful soup. Meanwhile, two paintings nearby hover on the brink of Rothko's classic style, as passages of color come together into rectangles that seem to shift and pulse in an undefined space.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper.