Simon Schama's The Power of Art Episode 8: Rothko
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| "Brown, Orange, Blue on Maroon", by Mark Rothko (Photo credit: elycefeliz) |
Mark Rothko (Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz; September 25, 1903 -- February 25, 1970) was an American painter of Latvian Jewish descent. He immigrated with his family from Dvinsk (now part of Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire) to the United States in 1913 when he was 10 years old. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".
Power of Art is a BBC documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama.
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| Mark Rothko's Black on Maroon |
