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Two softly-edged rectangles of rust-brown and blue hover against a similar background, their boundaries dissolving into luminous mists of color.
Significance
Rothko's color fields were designed to envelop viewers in contemplative experience. "I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions," he said—tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
294 cm × 232 cm
Location
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA