A documentary from Simon Schama‘s famous series, The Power of art, on the life of Mark Rothko, from his beginning to his impact on american twentieth century art and the world in general.
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970), was a Russian-American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an “abstract painter“.
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