Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Over a career spanning five decades, Rothko developed his signature style: ...

Sumptuously illustrated with reproductions of 50 paintings, this book celebrates the rich artistic legacy of American artist Mark Rothko and his signature works as a painter of abstract canvases.

Evolving from abstract expressionism while looking back at Matisse, a loose group of painters in the 1950s and ’60s created a new kind of sensuous abstraction that celebrated color above all else.

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Thoughtful and well-read though he ...

The Arkansas Arts Center has a triple-header starting Friday, Oct. 25, when its much-anticipated exhibition “Mark Rothko in the 1940s: The Decisive Decade” opens along with two other significant shows ...

The colors shimmer as they hang before you, one irregular rectangle above another. There is nothing else here but feeling and size. Enormous size: up to 12-foot canvases. The colors of the rectangles ...

After Mark Rothko is from is from Vik Muniz's Pictures of Color series, initiated in 2001. To create this work, the artist first reproduced Rothko's color field painting with swatches of colored ...

There’s a reason Matisse left white borders of blank canvas in his paintings, and why your dogs don’t appreciate a Mark Rothko color field the way you do (aside from dogs’ general disregard for art).