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Mark Rothko: Untitled (1954) and Yellow Band (1956)
Mark Rothko: Untitled (1954) and Yellow Band (1956) A museum visitor viewing Untitled (left; 1954) and Yellow Band (1956), two oil-on-canvas paintings by Mark Rothko, during the exhibition “Abstract Expressionism” (2016–17) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Mark Rothko

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Mark Rothko (born September 25, 1903, Dvinsk, Russian Empire [now Daugavpils, Latvia]—died February 25, 1970, Manhattan, New York, U.S.) was an American painter whose works introduced contemplative introspection into the melodramatic post-World War II Abstract Expressionist school. His use of color as the sole means of expression led to the development of Color Field Painting. Rothko was born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, then a shtetl, or a small Jewish village, in the Pale of...

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