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2014-10-31 Den Haag, Gemeente museum. Mark Rothko Seagram Mural Sketch DSCN5717
MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)
Life and Work
In 1913 the Jewish family Rothkowitz Latvia immigrated to Portland in Oregon, United States. From 1921 to 1923 Mark studied at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut). In 1925 he moved to New York where he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York and shortly painting lessons from Max Weber got. He decided to quickly evolve independently. From 1929 to 1952 he taught at the Center Academy in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1933, Rothko had his first solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum. His artistic work of the thirties of the last century, inspired by the work of Milton Avery and Henri Matisse with simplified compositions and color planes. Together with Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman he founded in 1935 on The Ten, a group of artists who tended to expressionism. From 1942 to 1947 he searched Gottlieb join the Surrealist movement.
The Rothko Chapel in Houston
Around 1947 he broke with surrealism, and he turned to abstraction. His canvases contain, on a uniform colored surface, two or three rectangles in different colors, ranging in width or height, but rarely both. With Clyfford Still he gave in the summer of 1947 and 1949 taught at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. From 1948 to 1949 he worked with William Baziotes, David Hare, Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newman in The Subjects of the Artist, an art school in New York, which was initiated by Clyfford Still. From 1951 to 1954 he worked at the Art Department of Brooklyn College in New York. His later work in the fifties and sixties were increasingly gloomy color. He worked now with series of paintings, as seen in the Suites of the Rothko Chapel in Houston and the Seagram Murals in New York.
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2014-10-31 Den Haag, Gemeente museum. Mark Rothko Seagram Mural Sketch DSCN5717
MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970)
Life and Work
In 1913 the Jewish family Rothkowitz Latvia immigrated to Portland in Oregon, United States. From 1921 to 1923 Mark studied at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut). In 1925 he moved to New York where he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York and shortly painting lessons from Max Weber got. He decided to quickly evolve independently. From 1929 to 1952 he taught at the Center Academy in Brooklyn, New York.
In 1933, Rothko had his first solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum. His artistic work of the thirties of the last century, inspired by the work of Milton Avery and Henri Matisse with simplified compositions and color planes. Together with Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman he founded in 1935 on The Ten, a group of artists who tended to expressionism. From 1942 to 1947 he searched Gottlieb join the Surrealist movement.
The Rothko Chapel in Houston
Around 1947 he broke with surrealism, and he turned to abstraction. His canvases contain, on a uniform colored surface, two or three rectangles in different colors, ranging in width or height, but rarely both. With Clyfford Still he gave in the summer of 1947 and 1949 taught at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. From 1948 to 1949 he worked with William Baziotes, David Hare, Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newman in The Subjects of the Artist, an art school in New York, which was initiated by Clyfford Still. From 1951 to 1954 he worked at the Art Department of Brooklyn College in New York. His later work in the fifties and sixties were increasingly gloomy color. He worked now with series of paintings, as seen in the Suites of the Rothko Chapel in Houston and the Seagram Murals in New York.
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