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Blue and gray - Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) | Wikioo.org - The Encyclopedia of Fine Arts

Blue and gray – (Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz)) Previous Next


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Style: Abstract Expressionism;Color Field

Topic: Colour

Date: 1970

Size: 203 x 176 cm

Museum: National Gallery of Art (Washington, United States)

Technique: Acrylic On Canvas

When asked about the 'grey and black' paintings, Rothko said, quite simply, that they were about death. They are desolate, empty images, but they also afford a richly ambiguous visual experience. Their landscape like qualities, with the black at the top — an Arctic wasteland under a vast and empty sky — is at the same time more deathlike.

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