Mark Rothko History

Before arriving to England, I looked at the list of class trips that our Sites and Sights group would be attending. I had not heard of about half of the places, including the Tate Modern. On the twenty third of October, we had the pleasure of visiting this museum. At first, I was not sure if I would enjoy it because I am usually not interested in art. Our tour guide provided us with more knowledge about art in general as well as different ways to approach and examine art. There are so many pieces of art to look at with not nearly enough time. However, the objects, sculptures and paintings my tour guide showed us made the day unforgettable. Most art museums specifically only display pieces from hundreds of years ago, but this particular museum
He was originally born as Markus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia on the twenty fifth of September in 1903. His family migrated to the United States to live in New York City when he was ten years old. During his time in New York, he painted many murals. His previous works were created with bright, intense colours that would be appealing to the viewer. In 1958, the owner of the Four Seasons approached Rothko to paint murals for his restaurant. He lived in an area filled with poverty, and the kinds of people that ate at the Four Seasons were the epitome of the people he despised. While Rothko accepted the offer, he secretly agreed to do it with malicious intentions. His plan was to create these murals with depressing, dark emotions captured inside to make the customer lose their appetite and leave. This would ultimately ruin the restaurants reputation, which is exactly what he wanted. Rothko’s inspiration for this idea was from Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library, claiming that Michelangelo encapsulated the exact emotion and reaction he was trying to achieve for these murals. He eventually abandoned the project entirely and gave back the money he received from the owner. Shortly after finishing these murals, Rothko committed suicide in 1970. The murals arrived at the Tate Gallery in London the day of his
She was born on the twenty ninth of October in 1930. She grew up in a very conservative family and always resented the idea of women being inferior to men. To rebel against her conformist, upper middle-class family’s views, she eloped at the age of eighteen to Harry Mathews. They had two children and lived a luxurious life together. After a while, she realised that she had conformed to what she had been trying to avoid her whole life. She ended up suffering from a severe psychological breakdown and had to be hospitalized. She had flashbacks of her father raping her back when she was just shy of turning twelve years old. While hospitalized, her father sent her a letter apologizing for everything he had done to her. This caused her to sink into an even deeper depression, which triggered all of feelings and emotions she had been repressing for years. To cope with everything, she used her artistic abilities as a form of therapy, thus turning her nightmares into images. She divorced her husband not too long after her breakdown. Her job caused her to travel all over the world, taking her from Italy to Switzerland to Israel and eventually to California. She used this time to find her true self and eventually realised this is not how she wanted to continue living. Her passionately lived life provides the raw material for her works. The obstacles she overcame motivated her to pursue her career