Listen to Mark Rothko’s son discuss his father’s painting and the inspiration behind it!
For Rothko, art was “an adventure into an unknown world”; like the Surrealists before him, Rothko looked inward, to his own unconscious mind, for inspiration and material for his work.
🖼️ Mark Rothko. “Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea.” 1944. Bequest of Mrs. Mark Rothko through The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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