One of the finest American painters and printmakers of his generation, Mark Rothko pioneered 'Abstract Expressionism,' which was the most idiosyncratic art movement in the United States in the mid-twentieth century.
Beginning his career as a 'Realist,' Mark moved gradually towards 'Abstraction.
' He was directly associated with the New York School, a group of painters that together generated a fresh lease of life to American Art in 1940s.
Born in Dvinsk, Russia, in 1903, Rothko immigrated to the United States in 1913.
He studied painting at Yale University from 1921-23.
In 1949, he created his 'Abstract Expressionist,' 'Color Field Painting,' oil on canvass masterpiece "No.
3/13-Magenta, Black, Green on Orange.
" Owing to his excellence in his artistry, Mark was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Yale in 1969.
Throughout a career, spanning for five long decades, he fashioned an original and an ardent form of 'Abstract Painting.
' In the due course of time, Mark's art became monochromic statements of his signature style, which he called 'Minimal Art.
' His intrepid use of paint led to the expansion of 'Color Field Painting,' a feature concretely obvious in his "No.
3/13-Magenta, Black, Green on Orange.
" Rothko's work became synonymous with meticulous attention to formal elements, such as color, balance, shape, composition, depth, and scale.
Contrary to many of his fellow artists' 'Abstract' painting style, Rothko never followed dramatic 'Abstract' techniques, such as aggressive brushstrokes or the splattering of colors.
His paintings instead portrayed the juxtaposing huge areas of melting hues that apparently hover parallel to the plane in a vague, impressive space, as shown in "No.
3/13-Magenta, Black, Green on Orange.
" The sense of appeal in Rothko's paintings has been correlated to the aesthetics of the transcendent, an implicit, or an overt concern of his fellow artists in the New York School.
One of the most appreciated and recognized works of Rothko is "No.
3/13-Magenta, Black, Green on Orange.
" It is fashioned on a compositional formation that he explored for twenty-three years.
The barely separated, rectangular blocks of paint are smeared in a column against a colored background.
Their corners are soft & irregular, and Rothko uses strongly related colors to accentuate his rectangular blocks.
The green bar in this "No.
3/13-Magenta, Black, Green on Orange," seems to vibrate and pulsate against the orange around it, creating an optical shimmer.
In effect, the painting is packed with gentle movement, as blocks appear to emerge, ebb, and surface to the onlookers.
The colors tend to lighten and blur with the faint unevenness of their intensity, mobilizing a vague shift between sturdiness and intangible depth.
Rothko's works are exhibited worldwide, including at The Art Institute of Chicago; The Menil Collection, Houston; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Tate Gallery, London.
The creator of splendid "No.
3/13-Magenta, Black, Green on Orange," Mark Rothko committed suicide on February 25, 1970, due to a troubled marriage and poor health.