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Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous Preview

Discover the art world giant whose color fields changed art history and now fetch millions

Aired 10/25/2019

American Masters

Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous Preview

Preview: 10/25/2019 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions

Discover the art world giant whose color fields changed art history and now fetch millions

Explore the life of the celebrated artist whose luminous color field paintings helped define the abstract expressionist movement, which shifted the art world epicenter from Paris to New York. Featuring original scenes with Alfred Molina.

Aired 10/25/2019

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Support for American Masters is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AARP, Rosalind P. Walter Foundation, Judith and Burton Resnick, Blanche and Hayward Cirker Charitable Lead Annuity Trust, Koo...

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How Abstract Expressionism Changed American Art

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Clip: 10/25/2019 | 1m 57s | See how Abstract Expressionism shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York (1m 57s)

Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb on Creating Abstract Art

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Clip: 10/25/2019 | 1m 22s | How Mark Rothko and Adoph Gottlieb responded to The New York Times. (1m 22s)

Why Mark Rothko Came to America

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Clip: 10/25/2019 | 2m 42s | Learn why Rothko's family emigrated from Russia to the United States. (2m 42s)

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