Orange and Yellow

ID: #1092 | TOP 200 | Modern artists | Abstract

The painting depicts the typical style of Mark Rothko, who is known for his use of flat, monochromatic rectangles. There are two rectangles on the canvas, the upper one in yellow and the lower one in orange. The rectangles are on an orange background with a darker border at the bottom rectangle. The work has a simple texture and vibrant colors that create an impression of depth and space.

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Prevailing color of this fine art print is yellow and its shape is portrait.

Mark Rothko (1903-1970). American artist of Latvian origin (birth name Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz). Born into a Jewish family, his childhood was marked by the horrors of pogroms and he emigrated to the United States in 1913. He belongs to the Abstract Expressionists (although he refused this label refused and considered himself an abstract painter). In 1936 in New York, he participated in several Cubist and Surrealist exhibitions and his fame began to slowly rise. At the end of the 50s, he developed a specific style of multiform painting - abstract blocks of blurred and intermingled colours. He worked with untreated canvas, upon which he applied think layers of colour on top of each and thus created intertwined coloured structures. He marked his works often only by numbers and sometimes placed them in opposition. For Rothko, colour was merely a means and his multiforms were an expression of basic human emotions (as for surrealists) in a pure and abstract form.