Between these two poles, you can find everything I want to say."

Rothko committed suicide on February 25, 1970.Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia), on September 25, 1903.

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Despite its basis in religious symbolism (the triptych) and less-than-subtle imagery (the crucifixion), the paintings are difficult to attach specifically to traditional Christian motifs, and may act on the viewers subliminally. His initial intention was to become an engineer or an attorney. He sought subjects that would complement his growing interest with form, space, and color. A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. As it turned out, these works would be his final artistic statement to the world. During the 1930s, Rothko also exhibited with a group of modern artists who called themselves "The Ten," and he worked on federally sponsored arts projects for the Works Progress Administration.In the 1940s, Rothko's artistic subjects and style began to change.

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In this way, Rothko's erasure of symbols both removes and creates barriers to the work. He wanted his paintings to move beyond abstraction, as well as beyond classical art. It isn't something you command!He even went so far as to recommend that viewers position themselves as little as eighteen inches away from the canvasAs Rothko achieved success, he became increasingly protective of his works, turning down several potentially important sales and exhibition opportunities:

He feared that people purchased his paintings simply out of fashion and that the true purpose of his work was not being grasped by collectors, critics, or audiences.

... only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

Rothko told friends he intended the chapel to be his single most important artistic statement.

Ashton, an art historian and close friend of Rothko's, goes further: "Weber presided over [Rothko's] early development" (p. 19).Ashton, p. 26. to Raise Funds to Build London’s Largest Ever Community Kitchen

The drama for many critics of Rothko's work is the uneasy position of the paintings between, as Chase notes, "nothingness or vapidity" and "dignified 'mute icons' offering 'the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today'". The family immigrated to the United States when Rothko was 10 years old, resettling in Portland, Oregon.Rothko excelled at academics and graduated from Portland's Lincoln High School in 1921. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an abstract expressionist On half of the works, Rothko applied none of the paint himself, and was for the most part content to supervise the slow, arduous process. One was a group of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York's Seagram Building, which Rothko never completed since he withdrew from the project; another was a series of paintings for a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas.

How often it must be permanently impaired by the eyes of the vulgar and the cruelty of the impotent who would extend the affliction universally!Rothko's aims, in the estimation of some critics and viewers, exceeded his methods.Many of the "multiforms" and early signature paintings are composed of bright, vibrant colors, particularly reds and yellows, expressing energy and ecstasy. On December 30, when they were back in New York, she gave birth to a daughter, Kathy Lynn, called "Kate" in honor of Rothko's mother.Despite his fame, Rothko felt a growing personal seclusion and a sense of being misunderstood as an artist.