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Paint like Mark Rothko
Use the tools and colours to create an Abstract Expressionist picture in the style of Mark Rothko. This project has two types of painting activity:
Copy a Rothko-style painting – Study an original painting and try to recreate it.
Copy and review a Rothko-style painting – Study an original painting and try to recreate it, then write an evaluation of your work.
Express yourself like Rothko – Create your own version of a Rothko colour field painting.
Discussion points
- Mark Rothko was one of the most famous American Abstract Expressionists.
- He lived between 1903 and 1970.
- Rothko’s most famous work was his deep and mysterious paintings of rectangles of colour, painted in the 40s and 50s.
- An important part of their impact is their size – they are very large.
- Rothko called these works ‘multiforms’.
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