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Color Field Painting

No. 61 (Rust and Blue)

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

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