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    Biography of Mark Rothko

    Marc Rothko is best known as one of the central figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art in the 1950s and '60s.

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  • Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia (now Daugavpils, Latvia), on September 25, 1903, and immigrated to the United States with his family in his youth. In the mid-20th century, he belonged to a circle of New York-based artists (also including Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock) who became known as the Abstract Expressionists.

    His signature works, large-scale paintings of luminous colored rectangles, used simplified means to evoke emotional responses. Rothko committed s uicide on February 25, 1970.

    Rothko excelled at academics and graduated from Portland's Lincoln High School in 1921.

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    He attended Yale University, studying both the liberal arts and the sciences until he left without graduating in 1923. He then moved to New York City and studied briefly at the Art Students League. In 1929 Rothko