Mark Rothko – Expressing Human Emotions Through Abstraction

“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.” – Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko, Saffron, 1957

Mark Rothko, Saffron, 1957

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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