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Mark Rothko (/ ˈ r ɒ θ k oʊ / ROTH-koh; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was a Latvian American abstract painter. 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.
Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington on January 24, 1915, the first child of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell. The family later moved to San Francisco, where Motherwell's father served as president of Wells Fargo Bank, but returned to Cohasset Beach, Washington, every summer during his youth.
Ulysses (1952), a blue-and-black striped painting, sold in 1985 for $1,595,000 at Sotheby's to an American collector who was not identified. [19] Consigned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and previously part of Frederick R. Weisman's collection , Newman's 8.5-by-10-foot Onement VI (1953) was sold for a record $43.8 million at Sotheby's New ...
Yellow-Red-Blue: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 128 x 201.5 1925 Abstract Interpretation: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 49.5 x 34.6 Oil on board 1925 In the Bright Oval: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid 73 x 59 Oil on carton 1925 Black Triangle: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 95 x 70.7 Oil paint on card board 1925 Oval ...
Another painting, Evening (Avond) (1908), depicting a tree in a field at dusk, even augurs future developments by using a palette consisting almost entirely of red, yellow, and blue. Although Avond is only limitedly abstract , it is the earliest Mondrian painting to emphasize primary colors .
Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimalist painter.
The thin patches of gray and yellow lead-tin paint categorize the abstract pattern that establishes the folds in the jackets fabric and fur trim. [3] [5] Vermeer's devotion to painting light and shade can be acknowledged through the inclusion of dark brown shadows painted on the young musicians right arm and shoulder. [5]
Voice of Fire is a 1967 acrylic on canvas abstract painting made by American painter Barnett Newman in 1967. It consists of three equally sized vertical stripes, with the outer two painted blue and the centre painted red. The work was created as a special commission for Expo 67.