Sam Francis
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«Rothko versucht Gefühle durch Farbe auszudrücken.»
Mark Rothko Biografie
Künstler
| geboren: | 25. September 1903 in Daugavpils/Dwinsk, Lettland |
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| gestorben: | 25. Februar 1970 in New York |
| Nationalität: | Amerikanisch |
| Technik: | Malerei, |
| Stilrichtung: | Abstrakter Expressionismus, |
| Künstlergruppe: | The Irascibles |
| Vertreten in: | Albertina(Wien), Fondation Beyeler(Basel), MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst(Duisburg), MoMA - Museum of Modern Art(New York), Museum Frieder Burda(Baden Baden), Peggy Guggenheim Collection(Venedig), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum(New York), Sprengel Museum Hannover(Hannover), Whitney Museum of American Art(New York), Yale University Art Gallery(New Haven), |
| Galerie: | Galerie Beyeler(Basel ), The Pace Gallery(New York ), |
| empf. Kataloge: | Die Essenz der Moderne , Die Wirklichkeit des Künstlers. Texte zur Malerei , Mark Rothko. Retrospektive , |
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Jackson Pollock
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«The important thing is that Clyff Still – you know his work? – and Mark Rothko, and I – we’ve changed the nature of painting ... I don’t mean there aren’t any other good painters. Bill (Willem de Kooning,fh) is a good painter, but he’s a "French" painter. I told him so, the last time I saw him after his last show ... all those pictures in his last show start with an image. You can see it even though he’s covered it up, or tried to ... Style – that’s the French part of it. He has to cover it up with style...»
Quellenangabe:"Conversations with Artists", by Seldon Rodman, New York, Capricorn Books, 1961, pp. 84-85