Thursday, January 29, 2009

Rothko is a god

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Mark Rothko

Born Marcus Rothkowitz, (September 25, 1903–February 25, 1970). He was a Latvian-born American painter and printmaker. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted the classification as an "abstract painter". Rothko is also a colour field painter, and a god.

'Magneta, black, green on orange', oil on canvas, 1947. The museum of modern art.


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