The first comprehensive exhibition of the artist in the city, which became his second home

MAPK Rothko
Source: portlandartmuseum.org


MAPK Rothko
Source: portlandartmuseum.org

In 1913, a ten-year exile from Russia, Marcus Rothkowitz in the future - one of the most important American artists of the XX century Mark Rothko (1903-1970), came with his mother and older sister in the city of Portland, Oregon, where his family has waited for his father earlier had left his homeland and his brothers Rothko. In Portland, Rothko will be in school named Lincoln (Lincoln High School) and the first to comprehend the basics of skill in the art school, then went to study at Yale University, and later became a famous artist, conquer New York.

The exhibition in the Portland, on the second home of the artist, represents 45 public works of Rothko, created throughout his career - from the 1920s until the late 1960s. It is noteworthy that the first museum exhibition of Rothko's career took place exactly at the Museum of Portland - in the years 1933-1934.

works for this family provided a retrospective of the artist, the National Gallery of Art and private collectors . The exhibition - the first detailed study of Portland for creative ways of the artist and influenced his aesthetic concepts. On display there are the early figurative work of Rothko, 1920, created during the period of study at the Max Weber (Max Weber), and also under the influence of Milton Avery (Milton Avery), the product of a series of images of the New York subway, surrealism, abstract paintings from the period and, Finally, the classical works of the 1940s, made in the corporate style of Rothko, which are filled with quiet space rectangular canvases, painted flowing into each other paints lush, saturated colors.

Material Maria prepared Estrova, AI

Source: portlandartmuseum.org , artinvestment.ru