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Mark Rothko [1903-1970] American

Rank: 104
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Mark Rothko, born Markus Yakovlevich Rotkovich, was an American painter of Russian Jewish descent. Although Rothko himself refused to adhere to any art movement, he is generally identified as an abstract expressionist.

Art, Space

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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.		101
I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.		102
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.		103
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.		104
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.	Art	105
Silence is so accurate.		106
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.		107
There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.		108
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.		109
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.	Space	110

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