
How Mark Rothko Unlocked the Emotional Power of Color


achieve this, Rothko looked to communicate on the most elemental level, to appeal to core emotions, to our common, proto-rational understanding of the universe around us and our place in it.
Christopher Rothko • Mark Rothko
Monet’s reputation faded after his death but within 25 years had rebounded spectacularly. He came to be celebrated as a leading precursor of abstraction, series painting and not least immersive art, all of which play so large a role in contemporary art today
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