Happy Birthday Mark Rothko

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of my favorite artists Mark Rothko. Rothko never considered himself to be part of an art movement, and his work was truly original.  His work has inspired many abstract expressionists to work with color and operate on a level of emotion. I have been fortunate enough to see one of Rothko's work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

"I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on"