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Rothko's triumphantly tragic career resembles what Robert Lowell called the "generic life" of his own generation of poets.
Rothko made the background of paintings such as Hierarchical Birds --the richly painted stacked rectangles of contrasting colors--the foreground, and he never looked back.
More than in any of the recent handsome artistic biographies--James Breslin's life of Rothko or Gail Levin's life of Edward Hopper or even John Richardson's stupendous biography of Picasso--we actually come away from Deborah Solomon's fascinating account of Cornell's life with an enhanced understanding of the art.
He is invited to John F. Kennedy's inauguration, has a "Rothko room" installed in the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.--the first of several such rooms in museums around the world--and accepts a commission to decorate a chapel for the de Menil family in Houston (known as the Rothko Chapel).
Rothko's journey into literal and figurative darkness left behind a shimmering trail of canvases that mark for many people the high-water mark of spiritual beauty and emotion in modern art.