Mark Rothko's Painting, White Center
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MARK ROTHKO AND HIS PAINTING “WHITE CENTER”
Mark Rothko’s painting “White Center” is a breathtaking abstract painting I saw at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA). Rothko painted this 84 x 72-inch oil on canvas work in 1957. The painting is done in his signature style of using color and form-floating rectangular shapes.
Rothko was part of the American movement that became known as Abstract Expressionism, which was more than just a painting style. It refers to the process the artists worked in conveying powerful emotions through the quality and size of the paintings. They were also greatly influenced by European Surrealism and Expressionist painters. This movement was about expressing one’s feelings through …show more content…
The recognition came after the “Fifteen Americans” show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1952. The MoMA show included Rothko (who had eight paintings in a separate gallery), the other artists included in the exhibition were William Baziotes, Edward Corbett, Edwin Dickinson, Herbert Ferber, Joseph Glasco, Herbert Katzman, Frederick Kiesler, Irving Kriesberg, Richard Lippold, Jackson Pollock, Herman Rose, Clyfford Still, Bradley Walker Tomlin and Thomas …show more content…
They are the symbols of man’s primitive fears and motivations no matter in which land or what time, changing only in detail but never in substance.”[4] The idea of myth became central to his work. He wanted to communicate human drama and displace the recognizable and everyday. Rothko said, “The fact that lots of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate with those basic human emotions. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted
MARK ROTHKO AND HIS PAINTING “WHITE CENTER”
Mark Rothko’s painting “White Center” is a breathtaking abstract painting I saw at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA). Rothko painted this 84 x 72-inch oil on canvas work in 1957. The painting is done in his signature style of using color and form-floating rectangular shapes.
Rothko was part of the American movement that became known as Abstract Expressionism, which was more than just a painting style. It refers to the process the artists worked in conveying powerful emotions through the quality and size of the paintings. They were also greatly influenced by European Surrealism and Expressionist painters. This movement was about expressing one’s feelings through …show more content…
The recognition came after the “Fifteen Americans” show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1952. The MoMA show included Rothko (who had eight paintings in a separate gallery), the other artists included in the exhibition were William Baziotes, Edward Corbett, Edwin Dickinson, Herbert Ferber, Joseph Glasco, Herbert Katzman, Frederick Kiesler, Irving Kriesberg, Richard Lippold, Jackson Pollock, Herman Rose, Clyfford Still, Bradley Walker Tomlin and Thomas …show more content…
They are the symbols of man’s primitive fears and motivations no matter in which land or what time, changing only in detail but never in substance.”[4] The idea of myth became central to his work. He wanted to communicate human drama and displace the recognizable and everyday. Rothko said, “The fact that lots of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate with those basic human emotions. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted