Dark Over Light Earth I Info

Mark Rothko * Date: 1954. * Style: Color Field Painting. * Genre: abstract. www.wikiart.org

: Despite their "grandiose" size, Rothko painted these large works to be very "human and intimate". He believed that when a viewer stands close to a large picture, they are "in it" rather than simply commanding it from the outside. Dark Over Light Earth I

Rothko famously rejected being labeled an "abstractionist," insisting his work was about human tragedy and the sublime. Mark Rothko * Date: 1954