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Mark Rothko, né Marcus Rothkowitz à Dvinsk, (Lettonie), le 25 septembre 1903 et mort le 25 février 1970, est un peintre américain. Classé parmi les représentants de l' expressionnisme abstrait américain, mais Rothko refusait cette catégorisation jugée « aliénante ».
Mark Rothko (IPA: ), Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.
Mark Rothko is a key figure in Abstract Expressionism, best known for his large color field paintings like No.61 (Rust and Blue) (1953). Born Markus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russian Empire (now Latvia) in 1903, Rothko and his family immigrated to the United States in 1913.
Après avoir expérimenté l' expressionnisme abstrait (mouvement artistique dans lequel il côtoiera notamment Jackson Pollock et Adolph Gottlieb) et le surréalisme, il développe à la fin des années 1940 une nouvelle façon de peindre.
He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970. Although Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American abstract expressionism movement of modern art.
De concert avec Newman et Gottlieb, Rothko poursuit sa quête d’une esthétique basée sur les grands mythes gréco-romains et chrétiens. Dans ses toiles, il combine des juxtapositions d’images inusitées, parfois divisées en zones.
As the principal recipient of the Mark Rothko Foundation's largesse, the National Gallery of Art received more than 1,100 works—paintings on canvas and works on paper—as well as research materials, including conservation records and exhibition reviews.
