Rothko’s New York
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After a delicious night’s rest, and a fine meal served by our world-class gourmet chefs schooled in the highest traditions of international cuisine, you will be rejuvenated and ready to have adventures in the city. One of the major attractions in New York City is the art, of course. The city attracts some of the best minds in the art world, coming here to contribute and benefit from the excitement over new creative ideas. You will very likely come across some of the works of the renowned artist Mark Rothko. Born Marcus Rothkowitz, in 1903, in the part of Russia now known as Latvia, he came with his family to Portland, Oregon in the U.S. when he was still in elementary school, escaping the growing anti-semitic sentiments of old Europe.
He was a Yale drop-out, and found his way to New York City’s Upper West Side, where he saw his future in a life-drawing class. He began studying and practicing art here, finding affinity with his teacher Max Weber, who spoke of art as a way to express emotion and spiritual inklings. Some of his finest early work is closely related to the surrealist school, linking images to the unconscious as described by Freud and Jung. Mark Rothko was also obsessed with developing a theory of art that contradicted classical art school training, and taught instead to unlock the creative potential by focusing on how children make art. This found its way into his later work when he began to focus on form and color. His most famous works are simple colors and shapes, and this earned him free entry into the abstract expressionist school. As with any movement that tried to claim him, Rothko denied the accuracy of any labels, and moved in his own directions, following his own peculiar muses until the end of his life.
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