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an abstract painting with red, green and blue colors

Jewish American painter Mark Rothko whose original name was Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz, was born in Russia of Latvin descent in 1903. The Rothkowitz family moved to the US in late 1913. Markus began painting in the early 1920s and established himself within the art scene. By 1940, he was concerned about anti-semitisim and chose to change his name to Mark Rothko. Rothko would go on to become one of the most important artists of his time, generally identified as an abstract expressionist

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the green paint is being applied to create an image

This was really just a warmup If you look closely you’ll see that these figures aren’t nearly as detailed as they normally would be. As part of my research for a collaboration with @wimbledon I painted a moment from a match between Federer and Djokovic from years ago. This was purely meant as a practise run, a warmup of sorts. Despite having painted hundreds of tiny people, I still need to warm up before I work on big projects. Small paintings like this one often act as an experiment to g...

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