Example sentences for: rothko

How can you use “rothko” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Greenberg wanted to enlist Rothko in his own narrative of American painting moving irrevocably toward "flatness" and so-called "color-field" painting.

  • 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.

  • Some of Rothko's '50s work does look stained rather than painted, but it's not the most powerful work.

  • You soak in a Rothko as in a warm tub.

  • No paintings in the show are more ravishing than the brace of monumental canvases Rothko painted in 1957 in a garage in New Orleans, while teaching at Tulane University.


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