Tag Archives: Mark Rothko

Seeing Emptiness

Life and death in Mark Rothko's paintings

Staring at the floating colors, I find myself weeping. As my eyes fall into the deep, red abyss, my mind fills the void with everything: love, life, grief, death. The gift of the abstract is that we infill its apparent emptiness … Continue reading

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Loss of a Famous Father

Kate Rothko Prizel still mourns the loss of her father forty years after his famous suicide.

After losing her father, the painter Mark Rothko, to suicide and her mother to cardiovascular disease shortly after, the nineteen-year-old Kate Rothko Prizel thought she and her then-six-year-old brother would be fine. They were in the midst of the New … Continue reading

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