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The war years brought a radical shift in Rothko's style.
For Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia, in 1903, the distance was even greater, and once he'd made it to the "real" Manhattan--his Museum of Modern Art show of 1961 marked his arrival--he found that he was still in the dark.
You soak in a Rothko as in a warm tub.
Negotiating the serpentine corridors of the big Rothko show at the National Gallery is like going through a tunnel that keeps getting darker only to find that the light at the end is an oncoming train.
These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."