A new documentary on Mark Rothko, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, will debut tonight on PBS’ American Masters. His signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the ...

Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...

The atmosphere is remarkably like a color field, after all. Sometimes a quick glance at the weather app is not enough to ...

In the Spring 1998 issue of Modern Painters, the painter Trevor Winkfield described Abstract Expressionism “as a monolith” that has been “accorded a reverential deference which . . . seems a mite ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...

He wrote seminal texts on the artists Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, in a jargon-free style that won him readers far outside the art world. By Clay Risen David Anfam, a British art historian who won ...

You might as well get one thing straight . . . I’m not an abstractionist. —Mark Rothko to Selden Rodman, 1957 It has long been one of the curiosities of abstract art that so many of its practitioners ...

Hope springs from the lavish layers of quick, thick, colorful oil brushstrokes, circles embodying a deep regard for eternal life that’s interconnected with a passion for Native American culture and an ...

Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous tells the story of the art world giant whose signature color fields defined the Abstract Expressionist movement and revolutionized the art world. Before you watch ...

Explore the most expensive Mark Rothko paintings ever sold at auctions and the interesting stories behind them.