Mark rothko biography wikipedia tagalog

Mark Rothko (September 25, – February 25, ) was a Latvian-Americanmodernartist. He was born in a part of the Russian Empire that is now in Latvia, but lived in America for most of his life.

He was Jewish. He committed suicide in New York City, at the age of 66, by taking an overdose of anti-depressants and slashing his arms with a razor.

His most famous work is known as abstract expressionism or color field painting.

Mark rothko biography wikipedia tagalog version

In , one of his works sold for $ million.

Rothko's work

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Rothko's work matured into rectangular fields of color and light. However, between the early period, and the later fields of color, was a long period of transition, marked by two important events in Rothko's life: the onset of World War II and his reading of Friedrich Nietzsche.

From October , after the death of his mother, Rothko started using symmetrical rectangular blocks of two to three opposing or contrasting, yet complementary, colors. Also, for the next sev