Mark Rothko - In-Person Lecture

Mark Rothko (1903–1970) had his first solo exhibitions in 1933, and his Surrealist-infused images were shown at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery in New York in 1945. The late 1940s and early 1950s saw the emergence of Rothko’s mature style, in which frontal, luminous rectangles seem to hover on the canvas surface. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) gave Rothko an important solo exhibition in 1961.

Rothko created three major mural commissions: for the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York (1958); Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1962); and an interdenominational chapel in Houston (1964). Professor Thomas Germano will discuss the art of Rothko and Abstract Expressionism in this visual art lecture.