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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
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Abstract art, Art, Color field, Death, Death and Dying, Emptiness, Grief, Life, Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel Project
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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
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Estate, Father's Day, Guardian, Kate Rothko, Loss, Mark Rothko, Painting
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