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Mark
Rothko

1903 — 1970 · Modern

The Early Life of Mark Rothko Mark Rothko was born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz in 1903. He was born in Dvinsk, Russia, in a place now known as Daugavpils, Latvia. His family lived within the Pale of Settlement, a region marked by political unrest and the …

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Mark Rothko
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Mark Rothko's own colours

Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

0° Red 90° Yellow 180° Cyan 270° Blue saturation →
Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers