Mark Rothko: Influential Artist In The Modern Art Movement

Franz Marc was a German artist and printmaker, and also one of the key statistics of the German Expressionist movement. Franz Marc was born in February 8, 1880 in Munich and past away in March 4, 1916, eventually Marc was only 36 years old. Wilhelm, the father, was an expert landscape painter; his mother, Sophie, was a strict Calvinist. Marc began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 1900. In 1903 and 1907, he spent time in France, intensely in Paris, visiting the city’s museums and copying many paintings, a conventional way for artists to study and improve technique.

Some of the prominent artists of this movement were/are: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Oskar Kokoschaka, Alfred Kubin, Vincent Van Gogh, Kathe Kollwitz, Wassily Kandinsky and Edvard Munch.

Late 1930’s, ensuing his love of art, Jackson moved to New York, with his two older brothers, and became associated with the Art Students League where he studied under Thomas Hart Benton. While in New York, Pollock became attracted to the Old Masters style of painting which promoted him to attend the New School for Social Research, New York where he met Jose Clemente Orozco, muralist. During attendance at New Workers School, New York, he became inspired by the unorthodox style of David Alfaro Siqueiros which significantly contributed to his abstract expressionism. Finally, in 1932, Jackson Pollock had his first exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum in the 8th Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels, and Drawings by American and French Artists (Terra Foundation for American Art: Collections, n.d.). Also, during the 1930’s, Jackson struggled with alcoholism and the depressive state that accompanies the disease, in spite of this Jackson painted “Going West” in 1934, his earliest notable painting (Solomon,

When studying artists, styles of art and their respective time period, it is always important to find a few key artists that were responsible for the rise of new art trends. Traditionally, art has often a reflection of the most important elements within its respective time period, such as wars, religions, royalty, culture and expression. This is why the study of art history is needs to look deeper than simply understanding how certain artworks were created. Among the various artists studied in the course, Andy Warhol is definitely one of the most influential. Far ahead of his time in thinking and talented in several media forms, Warhol was a product of his time and defined his era with the use of his artwork, giving rise to other artists within the same time period. This paper will argue that Warhol was not only an influence to modern art, he defined the concept of "pop art", which combined consumerism and pop culture, creating works that questioned the norm of society at the time, while providing a strong influence to future artists. Warhol was hugely successful in his artistic efforts and several of his staple works will be discussed in regards to its significance and representation of its respective period of time, as well as Warhol’s influence on the history of art.

Art. A word that encompasses different ideas and feelings to everyone of us. Boredom, excitement, hate, love, to the themes of politics, portraits, photographs, comedy and on and on. The art of taking a photograph and transporting it to a piece of canvas with paint and acrylic is called photo realism. A pioneer of her time, Audrey Flack did just that. Her name is synonymous with photorealism in the art world. She took the world by a storm with her paintings of people and and their emotions based off of photography. (Kleiner, 971) Becoming the first artist to actually express emotion into her art as all other photorealistic artist chose emotionless still life. She opened up a can of excitement and depth when she went from abstract painting in the 1950's to the 1960's photorealism. In 1966 her collection was permanently displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, allowing Audrey Flack to become the first photorealistic artist to have this happen to.

The innovative and passionate presence in both Jackson Pollock’s and Wassily Kandinsky avant-garde paintings exemplifies the redefinition of boundaries throughout their art making practices. Both artists challenged traditions both materially and conceptually using innovative and diverse approaches to materials and techniques when painting. Wassily Kandinsky goes against traditions and academies to create vivid, sensual and symbolic large-scale semi abstract expressionist oil paintings in a heightened state of mind. Many artworks of his convey bright and cheerful spontaneous colours that make the audience fully consumed within his works due to hypnotic and distorted semi realist shapes. Consequently, Jackson Pollock also goes against

The pioneering art movement of the early twentieth century redefined the modern visual design. From its philosophy, aesthetics to experimental methods, cross-domain artists will be pioneer art movement core ideas continue to output to the visual design, cast a pioneer art and visual design cannot deny the inheritance relationship. El Lissitzky is one of the leading figures. Lissitzky has a lot of titles, Russian Jews, teachers, artists, designers, architects, preachers, etc . later mentioned in his influence, often referred to a lot of modernist genres - he is the Russian vanguard movement Important leader, and mentor Kazimir Malevich to develop suprematism for the future of Bauhaus, style art and deconstruction has an important impact.

Ed Ruscha has been making work in Los Angeles for the better part of the century. People often talk about Ed Ruscha’s work, his paintings, his books, photos or films as different and non-traditional. Ruscha broke classical tradition of realism, stepped outside of the boundaries and changed art. Ed Ruscha the most iconic artist in the 20th century pioneered the pop art movement inspiring the world to think outside the box with his bold design choices. Ed Ruscha greatly influenced contemporary art, changing the way the world perceived the simple but yet so complicated canvas that Ruscha composed. Ruscha defies easy categorization as an he artist. He is simultaneously known as a pop artist, a conceptual artist, surrealist

Art is something that has been around since the existence of man. Nevertheless, the versatility that comes with art makes every piece of art unique and incredible. With this uniqueness being very noticeable by those who know art, many artists take this sense of uniqueness and create art in certain ways to make their art personal. With thousands of different styles and mediums of art, artists have the world in their own fingertips. In the past, many famous artists have set the stone for certain styles of art, and really allowed them to expand for the world and the artists of this day to use, admire, and enjoy. Out of all the artists that have come to be, I believe that Paul Signac made a huge contribution in the aspect of impressionism, pointillism,

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian-born artist, whose contributions to the world of modern art are innumerable. On an artistic level, Kandinsky's maturation process from representational art to abstract art is fascinating. From his earliest work, with an impressionistic flair, to his later work, which was pure abstraction, Kandinsky was an innovator and a genius. He bridged the gap between reality painting of earlier decades and the fantasy pastime of the twentieth century.

Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, now Daugavpils, Latvia, on September 25, 1903. He rated to the United States with his family at a young age. In the mid-20th century, he was a part of a group of New York-based artists, including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, who became known as the Abstract Expressionists. His most famous large paintings of bright colored rectangles triggered emotions in the viewer. Rothko ended his own life on February 25, 1970.

Mark Rothko- Abstract Expressionist paintings can be divided into two groups. That of the action painters and that of the colour-field painters. As melancholic and misanthropic as Pollok, killing himself in 1970. Understood that to paint a flat form painting destroyed illusion and revealed truth. He was very aware of the spiritual dimensions attainable in abstract art, some of his works being described as deeply religious. (Hugh Honour & Fleming, 1991)

     Munch had a series of paintings that were exhibited in a major art show in Berlin. The series was entitled The Frieze of Life, all six of these paintings caused such shock that the show was forced to shut down. Munch had so much feelings, passions, anguish, stress, sorrow, and pain in his paintings that people just didn't understand what was going on. He thought that people were just afraid of the truth. Munch had let his feelings out, not through rage or anger, but through art, some people that attended the show saw more than just art they saw one mans feelings. Munch's painting began having a big part in German Expressionism.

I first encountered Rothko's work at the Tate Modern gallery in London in 2008. When first examining his works, including other famous paintings such as Mural for End Wall' it struck me as a simplistic style, yet with its luminous rectangles and saturated colour, a sense of mystery was conveyed in a modern era. Moreover, on cream idilic walls, 'Light red over black' automatically illuminated from the walls in deep dark red, blues and blacks which led me to interpret his work as profoundly imbued with an emotional content that he articulated through a range of styles that had evolved from figurative to abstract. Furthermore, when examining this painting up close, the application of what seemed to be very thing layers of paint over each other, allowed the colours to radiate through, creating a sense of drama and light, despite the colours

The artwork, “Number 10,” by Mark Rothko displays two rectangles (top, yellow and the bottom, white) with a baby blue background color. Seeing the painting for the first time was surprising since I didn’t understand how it correlated with the title. It was easy to look at, but it didn’t catch my attention right away! I felt confused and frustrated while observing the piece because I didn’t know how I was going to find the meaning that lay behind the painting. This reminded me of my first-born nephew; I had such a difficult time trying to understand why he would cry so much. However, I was aware that crying was his way of communicating how he felt, just like painting this abstract piece was Rothko's style of communication.