Rothko's Attract Paintings

Rothko’s early works showed his admiration of innocent children’s art which was more emotional than conventional. It could be considered “Expressionist.” His style was characterized by unnatural formations and crudely applied paint. He painted landscapes, portraits, and city scenes like street and subway scenes. Over time, his art became more symbolic, expressing what he felt was he tragedy of the human condition during World War II. His work continued to change and developed into abstract imagery. He began to use watercolor, making his paintings appear more transparent. This inspired him to begin to thin his oil paint to get the same effect. His paintings then began to take on random shapes rather than recognizable forms. He eventually moved towards painting soft-edged rectangles of different colors. At first these colors were bright reds, oranges, and yellows, but then he moved to darker blues, greens, grays, and finally just painted black-on-black paintings. …show more content…
Rothko’s paintings were mostly composed of soft-edged rectangles of different colors. His early paintings often contained black, but he moved away from that color for awhile and then went back to it. Rothko wanted to express emotions in his paintings, such as ecstasy, tragedy, or doom. He used color without much form - primarily rectangles - to represent these