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1 Color Field and Ab Ex Sculpture

2 Mark Rothko, Iphigenia, 1943

3 Mark Rothko, No. 21, 1947

4 Excerpt from a letter to the New York Times by Rothko:
“We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.”

5 Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960 (at SFMOMA)

6 Rothko, Green and Tangerine on Red, 1956

7 View of the Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX, 1965-66

8 Barnett Newman, Onement I, 1948

9 Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Seashore, 1809-10

10 Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51

11 David Smith, Hudson River Landscape, 1950-51

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