
ART/ARCHITECTURE - Mark Rothko
Published: May 12, 2026
Duration: 4:56
The most unexpectedly uplifting and consoling artist of the 20th century was the abstract painter Mark Rothko, the high priest of grief and loss who spent the latter part of his career turning out a succession of sublime and sombre canvases that spoke, as he put it, of the ‘tragedy of being human’.
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