and the region where the revolutionary syndicalist union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was active. At the time, Portland was a center of revolutionary activity in the U.S.
Like his father, Rothko was passionate about issues such as workers' rights and contraception. He learned his fourth language, English, and became an active member of the Jewish community center, where he proved adept at political discussions. In June 1921, he completed the secondary level, with honors, at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, at age 17. Rothko started school in the United States in 1913, quickly accelerating from third to fifth grade. After he had mourned his father's death for almost a year at a local synagogue, he vowed never to set foot in one again. His father's death also led Rothko to sever his ties with religion. Sonia operated a cash register, while Markus worked in one of his uncle's warehouses, selling newspapers to employees. Jacob's death, a few months later, of colon cancer, left the family without economic support. From there, they crossed the country, to join Jacob and the elder brothers, in Portland, Oregon. They arrived as immigrants, at Ellis Island, in late 1913. Markus remained in Russia with his mother and elder sister Sonia. Migration from Russia to the US įearing that his elder sons were about to be drafted into the Imperial Russian Army, Jacob Rothkowitz emigrated from Russia to the United States. Following his father's return to the Orthodox Judaism of his own youth, Rothko, the youngest of four siblings, was sent to the cheder at age five, where he studied the Talmud, although his elder siblings had been educated in the public school system. ĭespite Jacob Rothkowitz's modest income, the family was highly educated ("We were a reading family", Rothko's sister recalled), and Rothko spoke Lithuanian Yiddish ( Litvish), Hebrew and Russian. In an environment where Jews were often blamed for many of the evils that befell Russia, Rothko's early childhood was plagued by fear. According to Rothko, his Marxist father was "violently anti-religious". His father, Jacob (Yakov) Rothkowitz, was a pharmacist and intellectual who initially provided his children with a secular and political, rather than religious, upbringing. Mark Rothko was born in Daugavpils, Latvia (then in the Russian Empire). 5.3 Seagram Murals–Four Seasons restaurant commission.Rothko contributed 14 canvases to a permanent installation at the Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas.Īlthough Rothko lived modestly for much of his life, the resale value of his paintings grew tremendously in the decades following his suicide in 1970.
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The Harvard series has since been restored using a special lighting technique. The Harvard Mural series was gifted to a dining room in Harvard's Holyoke Center (now Smith Campus Center) their colors faded badly over time due to Rothko's use of the pigment Lithol Red together with regular sunlight exposure. The Seagram murals were to have decorated the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building, but Rothko eventually grew disgusted with the idea that his paintings would be decorative objects for wealthy diners and refunded the lucrative commission, donating the paintings to museums including the Tate Modern. In his later career, Rothko executed several canvases for three different mural projects. Toward the end of the decade Rothko painted canvases with regions of pure color which he further abstracted into rectangular color forms, the idiom he would use for the rest of his life. In response to World War II, Rothko's art entered a transitional phase during the 1940s, where he experimented with mythological themes and Surrealism to express tragedy. Originally emigrating to Portland, Oregon from Russia with his family, Rothko later moved to New York City where his youthful period of artistic production dealt primarily with urban scenery. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.Īlthough Rothko did not personally subscribe to any one school, he is associated with the American Abstract Expressionist movement of modern art. Mark Rothko ( / ˈ r ɒ θ k oʊ/), born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz (Russian: Ма́ркус Я́ковлевич Ротко́вич, Latvian: Markuss Rotkovičs name not Anglicized until 1940 Septem– February 25, 1970), was an American abstract painter of Latvian Jewish descent.
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