Bbc power of art mark rothko biography
| Born in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia) Rothko moved with his family to Portland, Oregon in 1913. | |
| Rothko had huge success with largescale solo shows, but committed suicide in 1970. | |
| Mark Rothko, the Anglicized name of a Russian Jewish family which immigrated while he was a child to escape the abusive Cossacks, shortly before father's. |
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- Simon Schama's Power of Art is an eight-part BBC TV mini-series examining the works of eight artists, the context surrounding one of their works and the message they intended to convey with these.
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- Simon Schama's Power of Art recounts the remarkable story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight art masterpieces.
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- Simon Schama's Power of Art is an eight-part BBC TV mini-series examining the works of eight artists, the context surrounding one of their works and the message they intended to convey with these.
Rothko
Biography
Full Name: | Mark Rothko (born Marcus Rothkowitz) |
Born: | 1903 |
Died: | 1970 |
Born in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia) Rothko moved with his family to Portland, Oregon in 1913. His painting education was brief - he moved to New York to study under the artist Max Weber and then struck out on his own.
Rothko is known for his abstract expressionism paintings, but he moved through more traditional styles in his early career, including Surrealist paintings in the 1940s. In 1947 he embarked on the first of his large abstract 'colour-field' paintings, formalising their structure further in the 1950s.
Rothko had huge success with largescale solo shows, but committed suicide in 1970.
Simon Schama on Rothko
"One morning in the spring of 1970, I went into the Tate Gallery and took a wrong, right turn and there they were, lying in wait. No it wasn't love at first site. Rothko had insisted that the lighting be kept almost pretenti
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- Simon Schama's Power of Art recounts the remarkable story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight art masterpieces.