Art Prints - Mark Rothko

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Mark Rothko
(9/25/1903 - 2/25/1970)

Born Marcus Rothkowitz in Latvia, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1913, dropped out of Yale after his second year and was awarded an honorary degree by that university forty-six years later. His art career spanned five decades and his painting "Homage to Matisse" sold at auction in 1953 for $22.5 million dollars. In 2007, another of his paintings sold at Sotheby's for $72.8 million dollars.

Intro picture from Rothko's book:
"Writings on Art".

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Violet Green And Red 1951

"I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason paint them however, - I think it applies to other painters I know -, is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the lager picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command." ~Mark Rothko

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Violet Green And Red 1951




Violet Green And Red 1951
by Mark Rothko

Yellow, Red, Blue

"The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is the faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. Pictures must be miraculous; the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider. The picture must be for him, as for anyone experiencing it later, a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need." ~Mark Rothko

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Yellow, Red, Blue




Yellow, Red, Blue
by Mark Rothko

Simon Schama's Power of Art - Rothko excerpt

Beautiful. Fascinating. Emotional. Art is all of the above. But only a few are powerful. These are the works that not only lift you off your feet in their sheer artistry, they forever alter the human psyche. Focusing on eight iconic works of art, Power of Art reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages, from the murderous world of baroque Rome to paranoid, revolutionary Paris; from the carnage of civil-war Spain to the paradox of 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. A combination of dramatic reconstruction, spectacular photography and Simon Schama's unique, personal style of storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments that great works were conceived and born. The eight works of art profiled in this series are: Caravaggio's David and Goliath; Bernini's The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Rembrandt's The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis; David's Death of Marat; Turner's The Slave Ship; Van Gogh's Self-Portrait; Picasso's Guernica and Rothko's Seagram Building Murals.

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White Over Red

"One does not paint for design students or historians but for human beings, and the reaction in human terms is the only thing that is really satisfactory to the artist." ~Mark Rothko

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White Over Red




White Over Red
by Mark Rothko

Orange and Yellow

"I paint very large pictures because I want to create a state of intimacy. A large picture is an immediate transaction. It takes you into it." ~Mark Rothko

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Orange and Yellow




Orange and Yellow
by Mark Rothko

Untitled c. 1969

"I think of my pictures as dramas; the shapes in the pictures are the performers. They have been created from the need for a group of actors who are able to move dramatically without embarrassment and execute gestures without shame. Neither the action nor the actors can be anticipated, or described in advance. They begin a an unknown adventure in an unknown space.. ..Ideas and plans that existed in the mind at the start were simply the doorway through which one left the world in which they occur. The great cubist pictures thus transcend and belie the implications of the cubist program." ~Mark Rothko

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Untitled c. 1969




Untitled c. 1969
by Mark Rothko

Rothko's Rooms

Filmed on both sides of the Atlantic, this documentary chronicling Rothko's life and charting the development of his work fills the screen with his softly defined, rectangular clouds of colour stacked symmetrically on top of one another: a visual language conceived to evoke elemental emotions with maximum poignancy. There are penetrating contributions from his daughter, Kate, and his son, Christopher, and comments from a wide range of friends, artists, art historians, collectors and curators. The focus is on Rothko's demands for the perfect setting for the showing of his work, an ideal he pursued throughout his creative life, typified by the story of his iconic Seagram murals, nine of which now hang in a dedicated room at London's newly-opened Tate Modern. One of the murals commissioners, architect Philip Johnson, is among those who explain why Rothko refused to allow these works to hang in their intended venue, the exclusive Four Seasons restaurant in New York.

Rothko's Rooms / Mark Rothko

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Untitled c. 1958

"..it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes.. ..But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it." ~Mark Rothko

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Untitled c. 1958




Untitled c. 1958
by Mark Rothko

Number 12, 1951

"A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience." ~Mark Rothko

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Number 12, 1951




Number 12, 1951
by Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas

Far and away the best monograph ever written on Rothko. -- Art Forum

Somewhere in this volume you can find just about everything you will want to know about what Rothko painted between 1924 and his death in 1970. -- The New York Times Book Review, John Russell

Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas

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"A landmark in scholarship for one of North America's most sublime painters." -- The Chicago Tribune, 12/6/98

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Untitled 1950

"It's a risky business to send a picture out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent who could extend their affliction universally!" ~Mark Rothko

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Untitled 1950




Untitled 1950
by Mark Rothko

Number 10

"To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk." ~Mark Rothko

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Number 10




Number 10
by Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Recently breaking the record price for post-war art at a Sotheby's auction, Rothko's White Centre (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is indicative of this artist's tremendous and enduring legacy as a master of color. This beautifully produced, oversized monograph presents roughly 100 works (70 paintings in full-color plates and 28 drawings) from private and public collections, tracking the evolution of his signature style... The book also includes a tribute by Michelangelo Antonioni, an interview by Gillo Dorfles, a preface by Christopher Rothko, five essays by international specialists, a chronology, and a complete bibliography.

Mark Rothko

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