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• Mark Rothko

  Rothko used several original techniques that he tried to keep secret even from his assistants. ... Rothko’s painting technique required considerable physical stamina that the ailing artist was no longer able to muster.

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• Color Field

  It also was one of the first stain pictures, one of the first large field pictures in which the stain technique was used, perhaps the first one. ... Denying connection to Abstract Expressionism or any other Art Movement Mark Rothko spoke clearly about his paintings in 1956:

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• Abstract expressionism

  Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. ... Artists like Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, Mark Tobey (see gallery) and especially Barnett Newman (see below) and Ad Reinhardt used greatly reduced references to nature, and they painted with a highly articulated and psychological use of color.

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• Western painting

  During the 1950s Color Field painting initially referred to a particular type of abstract expressionism, especially the work of Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Adolph Gottlieb. ... In Mountains and Sea, from 1952, (see above) a seminal work of Colorfield painting by Helen Frankenthaler the artist used the stain technique for the first time.

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• Surrealism

  The show confirmed that Surrealism had a component in the visual arts (though it had been initially debated whether this was possible), and techniques from Dada, such as photomontage, were used. ... Mark Rothko took an interest in biomorphic figures, and in England Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Paul Nash used or experimented with Surrealist techniques.

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• Stanley William Hayter

  That same year, he met Polish printmaker Józef Hecht, who introduced Hayter to copper engraving using the traditional burin technique. ... Artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko made prints at the New York Atelier 17.

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• 20th century Western painting

  During the 1950s Color Field painting initially referred to a particular type of abstract expressionism, especially the work of Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Adolph Gottlieb. ... In Mountains and Sea, from 1952, (see above) a seminal work of Colorfield painting by Helen Frankenthaler the artist used the stain technique for the first time.

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• Hans Namuth

  His photos of Pollock at work in his studio increased Pollock's fame and recognition and led to a greater understanding of his work and techniques. ... The popularity drawn from his work with Pollock helped Namuth gain access to other members of the abstract expressionist movement including Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko.

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• History of painting

  The technique used was probably spitting or blowing the pigments onto the rock. ... During the 1950s Color Field painting initially referred to a particular type of abstract expressionism, especially the work of Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Adolph Gottlieb.

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