No. 13 (White, Red, on Yellow), 1958
Mark Rothko (American, born Russia, 1903–1970)
Oil and acrylic with powdered pigments on canvas
Emerging from the horrors of two world wars, Rothko was on the avant-garde of a series of artists who felt that representational art no longer expressed the emotional scars of grief and horror that had scoured the entire earth. So he turned completely to abstraction. Bypassing all the literary parts of our brain, Rothko generates pure emotion in his "windows on the universe." I look in his paintings, and catch a glimpse of eternity. I can stand in front of them for hours.
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