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Hommage à Mark Rothko 1
Daniel Allisy
Photography - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$881
Touched, Touching
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,399
Couleurs et formes du monde - Mini - Here and there
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$330
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$7,957
En Beauce Opus 1
Jacques Le Brusq
Painting - 120 x 114 x 8 cm Painting - 47.2 x 44.9 x 3.1 inch
$13,073
La ligne bleue
Christian Lefevre
Photography - 128 x 72 x 0.3 cm Photography - 50.4 x 28.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,591
Sin tí antes f20 Emotional Landscape Series
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$3,183
EL29 Emotional Landscape Series Ref.92
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 70 x 115 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 45.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,694
Visual Poetry II
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$1,200
Blue Ocean - Deep water navy minimalism seascape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,410
Green water - minimalism sea
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,410
Série: photographie concrète numérique - IMG_0483 04.04.2009
Roger Humbert
Photography - 30 x 24 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 inch
$2,615
Série: photographie concrète numérique - IMG_1166 03.11.2013
Roger Humbert
Photography - 30 x 24 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 inch
$2,615
Visual Poetry
Daniela Pasqualini
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,000
Hommage à Mark Rothko 2
Daniel Allisy
Photography - 120 x 92 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,108
Composition 11
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Painting - 210 x 210 x 4 cm Painting - 82.7 x 82.7 x 1.6 inch
$6,229
Composition 8
J/Y Delaunay-Israël
Painting - 210 x 210 x 3 cm Painting - 82.7 x 82.7 x 1.2 inch
$6,229
Inspired by Rothko
Marcus Rothkowitz, better known as Mark Rothko, was a Russian artist born in 1903. He was a pioneer of American Abstract Expressionism alongside his colleagues Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Rothko is best known, however, for experimenting with a new way of painting, called Colour Field painting, where the artist literally paints in fields of paint. In fact, Rothko claims that his works are "living organisms" that offer a more intimate view of the artist.
He invented this new method of painting in 1940. The colours became Rothko's only means of expression, he removed all other objects from the canvas so that the colour became the only element in sight. These paintings are immediately recognizable by their format: rectangles with blurred edges filled with flat areas of colour. This impasto technique is used by the artist to highlight the way in which the colours create the illusion that the coloured flat areas are moving by themselves. The viewer cannot help but be moved by the spiritual nature of the image.
Marcus Rothkowitz's search for identity has been a long journey. The son of a Jewish family from Latvia, he fled his country and moved to the United States with his family to escape the pogroms of the Russian Empire in Eastern Europe. Marcus became an American citizen in 1938 and two years later he Americanized his name to "Mark Rothko". Mark Rothko wanted to address the world and started to paint the things he wanted to say. He began with figurative art and expressionism, producing city scenes, landscapes, still lives, interior drawings and self-portraits. He then slowly abandoned figurative art and turned to more subjective works. Inspired by mythology, he made paintings of gods and monsters but soon realized that American painting had reached a dead end. He then devoted himself to writing a manifesto that is now considered one of the founding texts in the history of contemporary art.
His painting can be summarized in three key words: form, spatiality and color. He is the pioneer of abstract expressionism, but refuses to belong to any movement because he does not want to be alienated. He found his artistic signature after discovering Matisse's "L'atelier rouge" (1911), whose rectangular shapes and bright paints influenced his early work.
Rothko created large-scale colorful structures defined by slightly blurred rectangular shapes that were intended to open the viewer's mind through their obscurity. These large formats, usually two-tone, are intended to create a meditative experience through their peaceful grandeur.
Here is a selection of contemporary artists whose work, both abstract and expressive, has been inspired by Rothko's genius.