‘ART’ Dramaturgy

Mark Rothko

1903-1970 | Latvian American

“I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”

Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Composition: White on White. 1918

Kazimir Malevich. Black Square. 1913

“Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.”

READ: Mark Rothko | Artist Biography
LOOK + READ: Gallery of Paintings + Analysis
READ A PLAY: Red by John Logan
READ: The Rothko Effect: Why Does Art Move Us?
LOOK + READ: Timeline of Classic Rothko Paintings
WATCH: The Case For Mark Rothko | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (4:19)
READ: Mark Rothko Tate Modern Painting Damage, Man Jailed
READ: Man Sentenced for Vandalizing Rothko Painting
READ: I Regret Vandalizing a Rothko, But I Remain Committed to Yellowism