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🎨 Arts
July 02, 2026 at 07:01 PM
Puzzled by Mark Rothko's Captivating Color Field Paintings? Look to the Renaissance Masters Who Inspired Him
Source:
Smithsonian Magazine
An American painter found inspiration in 15th and 16th-century European art, studying how masters designed works to evoke specific feelings.
Mark Rothko
art history
Renaissance
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