Name: Untitled (Red) by Mark Rothko - Canvas Giclée Print
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Mark Rothko refused to be associated with any art movement. However, some characteristics of his work were closely related to the American Abstract ExpressionismThe term Abstract Expressionism is applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning, flourishing between 1943 and the mid-1950s. Since Abstract Expressionism marked the beginning of New York City as the centre of the Western art world, the movement is also known as the New York School. More of his time. Like other New York School artists, Rothko used abstract means to express universal emotions and strove to create awe-inspiring intensity with his paintings. With his mature style, he explored the expressive potential of stacked rectangular fields of luminous colour.

Where is the picture “Untitled (Red)” today?

The original picture by Mark RothkoMark Rothko (1903 – 1970) is closely associated with the New York school, a circle of painters that emerged during the 1940s as a collective voice in American art. During his career spanning five decades, he created a new form of abstract art. Mark Rothko, Untitled (1964) Rothko was born in Daugavpils, Latvia, into a highly educated family and was More, “Untitled (Red)” is on permanent display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, today.

What’s in it?

Mark RothkoMark Rothko (1903 – 1970) is closely associated with the New York school, a circle of painters that emerged during the 1940s as a collective voice in American art. During his career spanning five decades, he created a new form of abstract art. Mark Rothko, Untitled (1964) Rothko was born in Daugavpils, Latvia, into a highly educated family and was More painted “Untitled (Red)” with oil paint on paper sized 838 x 654 cm – much smaller dimensions than in his earlier canvases. The upper half of the picture is painted in multiple layers of black in varying shades, the lower half in two luminous orange-red rectangles of uneven widths. A perimeter is framing the composition. Rothko chose to use irregularly shaped edges which at some points merge with the ground, conveying a feeling as if the canvas was abounding in gentle movement, the blocks of colour emerging and receding. Rothko remarked about this type of colour field painting: “This kind of design may look simple, but it usually takes me many hours to get the proportions and colours just right. Everything has to lock together.”

What’s the context?

The artist suffered an aortic aneurysm in 1968 and was able to only work on smaller sized canvases or on stretched paper during his recuperation. He started to integrate black and darker colour series in the year before his suicide more often. Rothko considered his colour fields as violent battles of opposites – the battle of vertical against horizontal, cold versus warm colour, red versus black. When Rothko was asked about the meaning of black tonality in his paintings, he said it was about death.

Chatter and Prattle

Mark Rothko’s depression and his seclusion were exacerbated by his excessive smoking and drinking. At the peak of his career at the age of 66 he committed suicide. On the morning of the 25th of February 2017, he was found dead in his cavernous Manhattan studio. While he did not leave any suicide notes, the darker tonality in his pictures of the late years such as in Mark Rothko’s “Red” has been read as pictorial suicide notes in retrospect.

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Recommended Readings:

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Christopher Rothko, Janet Bishop (2017): Rothko: The Color Field Paintings (Book for Art Lovers, Books of Paintings, Museum Books)

Jacob Baal-Teshuva (2015): Rothko (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Barbara Hess (2016): Abstract Expressionism (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Christopher Rothko (2015): Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out

Susan Grange (2016): Mark Rothko: Break into the Light (Masterworks)

James E. B. Breslin (1998): Mark Rothko: A Biography

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