Mark #Rothko (an American #painter of Russian Jewish descent – September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970)

Posted by: bluesyemre | September 26, 2016

Mark #Rothko (an American #painter of Russian Jewish descent – September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970)

Ochre and red on red – Mark Rothko photo by Emre Hasan Akbayrak

Mark Rothko born Markus Yakovlevich Rotkovich (Russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, Latvian: Markuss Rotkovičs; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an abstract expressionist. With Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he is one of the most famous postwarAmerican artists.