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   Mark Rothko

   Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz (Latvian: Marks Rotko); September 25, 1903–February 25, 1970), was a Latvian-born American painter. ... Rothko’s use of mythology as a commentary on current history was not novel.
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   Abstract expressionism

   In the 1940s Richard Pousette-Dart's tightly constructed imagery often depended upon themes of mythology and mysticism; as did the paintings of Adolph Gottlieb, and Jackson Pollock in that decade as well. ... ... Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb,... Sam Francis, Mark Tobey (see gallery... and Ad Reinhardt used greatly reduced... and psychological use of color.
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   Western painting

   Symbolist painters mined mythology and dream imagery for a visual language of the soul, seeking evocative paintings that brought to mind a static world of silence. ... Artists like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Zox, and others often used greatly reduced references to nature, and they painted with a highly articulated and psychological use of color.
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   History of painting

   Symbolist painters mined mythology and dream imagery for a visual language of the soul, seeking evocative paintings that brought to mind a static world of silence. ... Artists like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Zox, and others often used greatly reduced references to nature, and they painted with a highly articulated and psychological use of color.
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   Caspar David Friedrich

   An anti-French German nationalist, Friedrich used motifs from his native landscape to celebrate Germanic culture, customs and mythology. ... In his 1961 article "The Abstract Sublime", originally published in ARTnews, the art historian Robert Rosenblum drew comparisons between the Romantic landscape paintings of both Friedrich and Turner with the Abstract Expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko.
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   List of nontheists (miscellaneous)

   ↑ "We read mythology and had periods for religious knowledge with separate classes for Jews and Catholics as there would be now for Muslims. ... ↑ "But how interesting that he [Angelico] was also a crucial inspiration to Mark Rothko.
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   List of atheists (miscellaneous)

   ↑ "We read mythology and had periods for religious knowledge with separate classes for Jews and Catholics as there would be now for Muslims. ... ↑ "But how interesting that he [Angelico] was also a crucial inspiration to Mark Rothko.
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   Chop suey

   Despite its Taishan background, there are various colorful stories about its origin, which Davidson (1999) characterizes as "culinary mythology": Some say it was invented by Chinese immigrant cooks working on the United States Transcontinental railway in the 19th century. ... Shortly thereafter, sometime between 1929 and 1931, Mark Rothko's Composition I [recto) closely and intentionally paraphrased Hopper's painting.
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   Captain Beefheart

   This was also the period in which Van Vliet furthered his own mythology through interviews. ... Some have compared it to the work of Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Francis Bacon, Vincent van Gogh and Mark Rothko.

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