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  • Modern art - Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art. More recent artistic production is often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art.
  • Abstract expressionism - An American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. The movement's name is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism.
  • Mark Rothko - Born Marcus Rothkowitz (1903 - 1970), Mark Rothko was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter." Particularly in the later years of his career, he became known for his large-scale paintings full of rich fields of color. He committed suicide at age 66.
  • Rothko's artwork today - Today, Mark Rothko's artwork has been known to sell for millions of dollars each. Rothko's paintings have been acquired by well-known museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where they can be seen today.
  • Red - Red is a play by American writer John Logan about artist Mark Rothko, first produced by the Donmar Warehouse, London, in December 2009 and transferred to Broadway in 2010. There, it was the 2010 Tony Award winner for Best Play, and actor Eddie Redmayne won a 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.