-Mark Rothko and Adolph Gotllieb manifesto, published in 1943 in the New York Times.
Anyone who knows me knows, my favorite artist is Mark Rothko. But it always seems to me that he gets overshadowed by other artist in the late 20th century or simply no one knows who he is. This Blog is meant to correct fix that.
Mark Rothko: A Painter’s Progress, The Year 1949
Jan 23, 2004 - Feb 23, 2004 At the Pace Gallery in New York
“Nineteen forty-nine is considered a watershed year for Mark Rothko. Ten years earlier, “The Ten”, a group of artists — including Rothko — who worked and exhibited together from 1935 to 1939, had dissolved. Rothko then abandoned the figurative tradition for the mythological themes of the emerging American surrealists that characterize his work of the early 1940s. Over the course of the next few years Rothko, like many of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, would eventually give up all imagery in favor of a non-objective composition. By 1947 the artist’s work was free from all surrealist and mythic imagery.”
- From the Pace Gallery Press Release describing the Exhibit: January 12, 2004
Unfortunaly this exhibit is from awhile ago but there are still a few pictures of what the exhibit looked like on the Pace Gallery website.
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