The Dark Clouds Closing In on Mark Rothko
A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.
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A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.
American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and rectangles had a long and intimate 20-year relationship. His paintings display almost exclusively those geometric shapes, that art critics describe as: “soft-edged rectangular fields
The artist’s complex paper works dazzle in Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, on view through March 31 at the National Gallery of Art.
David Platzer on “Mark Rothko” at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.
This is your chance to see Rothko’s paintings on paper as he intended them — many of them are exhibited without the protective intercession of museum…