AD REINHARDT MARK ROTHKO
Untitled, 1954 MARK ROTHKO
American painter of Latvian descent Abstract Expressionist Concerned with form, space and color Not concerned with urban and natural scenes Inspired by Nietzsche to aim to relieve man’s spiritual emptiness Surrealism lead to more abstraction With his “Multiforms” he removed all landscape, human figure, myth and symbolism
AD REINHARDT Number 18, 1956
American painter and writer Influenced Minimalism greatly Work begun as Cubist, but eventually move towards Abstract Expressionism Attempted to remove connotations of color, form, dimensionality, symbolism Paintings thus became geometric, grid like and single colored
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