The Life and Painting of Mark Rothko
Mar 18, 2015•27 min
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Marcus Rothkowitz was born in 1903 in Dvinsk, a town in the Pale of Settlement. As a child, he moved with his family to the United States. It was a journey that changed his life—and that of the world of modern art. Rothkowitz grew up to become the painter Mark Rothko. He’s the focus of Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel, a new biography by Annie Cohen-Solal.
She joins Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry to discuss Rothko's revolutionary approach to painting, his ideas about the role of the artist in society, and what made him a Jewish artist.
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