Mark Rothko Life and Pictures

“I am not an abstract painter. I am not interested in the relationship between form and color. The only thing I care about is the expression of man’s basic emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, destiny.”

Mark Rothko is a Latvian-born American painter that gave the world numerous Malevich-like pictures. Despite most experts still didn’t want to except Mark, he is treated like an abstract painter.

When Mark was 10-years-old his family moved to the USA (Oregon). After studying Rothko left Oregon for New York and namely there he experienced the atmosphere of art from all cultures and periods. Great influence on Rothko’s works had: German Expressionists and modernist painters.

Most of Mark’s paintings are dark, gloomy, abstract and thought-provoking. But his masterpieces were easily and generally well accepted among critics and just ordinary people.