Mark Rothko Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism began in the 1940’s in New York and flourished in the 1950’s, making New York the centre of the art world. This meant that Paris was no longer the art capital of the world. Abstract Expressionism came at a bad time as it was during World War II and many of the artist in Europe evacuated to the sates which was another big reason New York became so popular to artists. Some distinguished artists who moved to New York were, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrain and Leo Castelli, and some notable artists who stayed in Europe and survived were, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Many other previous art movements still went on around the world even after the war, such as Surrealism, Cubism and Dada.
The first artist I have chosen to write about is Mark Rothko, a painter from the city of Dvinsk in the Russian Empire. He was born on September 25th in 1903. His family immigrated to the United States when Rothko was only ten years old as his father, Jacob, feared his sons would be sent to join the Imperial Russian Army. They moved to Portland Oregeon where Rothko attended school. After the death of his father. Rothko and his family had to take on extra jobs to make ends meet so Rothko worked with his family in their warehouses, selling newspapers as a child. He was Jewish and which meant he spent a lot of his childhood in fear as he lived in an area where Jewish people were blamed for …show more content…
He ended up applying to an art school, the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. He learnt a great deal of knowledge here. In the same year, during autumn, he took some classes at the Art Students League which were taught by Max Webster, a Cubist artist. Rothko began to make art as a way of expressing his emotions and even his religious views and you can clearly see the influence Webster had on him in his early
Abstract Expressionism began in the 1940’s in New York and flourished in the 1950’s, making New York the centre of the art world. This meant that Paris was no longer the art capital of the world. Abstract Expressionism came at a bad time as it was during World War II and many of the artist in Europe evacuated to the sates which was another big reason New York became so popular to artists. Some distinguished artists who moved to New York were, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrain and Leo Castelli, and some notable artists who stayed in Europe and survived were, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Many other previous art movements still went on around the world even after the war, such as Surrealism, Cubism and Dada.
The first artist I have chosen to write about is Mark Rothko, a painter from the city of Dvinsk in the Russian Empire. He was born on September 25th in 1903. His family immigrated to the United States when Rothko was only ten years old as his father, Jacob, feared his sons would be sent to join the Imperial Russian Army. They moved to Portland Oregeon where Rothko attended school. After the death of his father. Rothko and his family had to take on extra jobs to make ends meet so Rothko worked with his family in their warehouses, selling newspapers as a child. He was Jewish and which meant he spent a lot of his childhood in fear as he lived in an area where Jewish people were blamed for …show more content…
He ended up applying to an art school, the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. He learnt a great deal of knowledge here. In the same year, during autumn, he took some classes at the Art Students League which were taught by Max Webster, a Cubist artist. Rothko began to make art as a way of expressing his emotions and even his religious views and you can clearly see the influence Webster had on him in his early