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	Mark Rothko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1958, Rothko was commissioned by architect Philip Johnson to paint a series of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York.
		Ultimately, Rothko was not happy having his paintings as the backdrop to gourmet dining so he gave a set of nine of the maroon and fl works to the Tate Gallery, where they are on permanent display in an installation designed by Rothko.
		Rothko's work was secretly supported by the CIA which considered it "free enterprise painting".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Rothko (413 words)

	The Rothko Chapel
		The Rothko Chapel, founded by John and Dominique de Menil, was dedicated in 1971 as an intimate sanctuary available to people of every belief.
		A modern meditative environment inspired by the paintings of American abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, the Chapel welcomes thousands of visitors each year, people of every faith and from all parts of the world.
		The Rothko Chapel is a place alive with religious ceremonies of all faiths.
	www.menil.org /rothko.html (135 words)

	Mark Rothko Posters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas that serves as a work of modern art: its walls are covered with fourteen mostly-fl color field paintings by Mark Rothko, and the chapel itself was largely designed by the artist.
		Rothko was commissioned by John and Dominique de Menil (founders of the nearby Menil Collection) to create a meditative space filled with his paintings; he was to paint them specifically for the chapel, and also to be given control over the chapel's shape and nature.
		The Rothko Case was the dispute between the daughter of the painter Mark Rothko and the directors of his gallery Marlborough Fine Art.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/120/mark-rothko-posters.html (1275 words)

	chapel on Encyclopedia.com
		Peculiar to English cathedrals are the small chantry chapels, mostly of the 14th and 15th cent., either built and endowed by individuals for their private Masses or serving to enclose the tombs of bishops and other churchmen.
		The two main chapels at the Vatican are the Pauline Chapel (1540), designed by Antonio da Sangallo for Paul III, and the Sistine Chapel (1473), built by Sixtus IV and celebrated for its great fresco decorations by Michelangelo and other masters.
		The chapel Santa Maria Degli Angeli was consecrated in September 1996 by the Bishop of Lugano.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/chapel.asp (1135 words)

	museumnetwork.com - Rothko Chapel Reopens in Houston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From the start, the Chapel had some serious problems, especially with humidity, which was causing a filmy white substance to rise to the surface of the fl canvases.
		The Rothko Chapel began as the vision of Dominique and John de Menil, who were also the patrons of the Menil Collection in Houston's museum district.
		Rothko's paintings for the Chapel, created between 1964 and 1967, are widely acknowledged as addressing the spiritual and the transcendent.
	www.museumnetwork.com /features/06_30_highlight_rothko.asp (490 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Nodelman, The Rothko Chapel Paintings
		Rothko's paintings since he attained at the end of the 1940s his own canonical format had—like those of Pollock and Newman—stretched the definition of the "easel painting" to its limits, both with regard to its material scale and to the protocols of its formal organization.
		Rothko went on to develop no fewer than three successive series of paintings for the Seagram project before arriving at what he felt was a satisfactory solution: a striking new pictorial format, full of architectonic allusions but also assertively gestural, of a sort unprecedented in his previous work.
		Rothko, one of the foremost among the more radical wing of Abstract Expressionism, therefore found himself in the unenviable position of a father recognizing, but unrecognized by, his denatured children—and all too conscious of the deadly serious nature of their rivalry.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exnodrot.html (3766 words)

	Haber's Art Reviews: Mark Rothko's Clouded Glass
		Mark Rothko took time to reach that desire for himself, almost to the eve of his suicide in 1970.
		And that is Rothko's relevance to Postmodernism, even had his glow and layering not penetrated painters such as David Reed.
		Rothko's unfinished murals have a kind of homecoming, too, barely a mile from their intended destination at the Four Seasons restaurant.
	www.haberarts.com /rothko.htm (2177 words)

	rothko
		Rothko also resisted in explaining what his paintings meant because he felt that it would limit the viewers mind and imagination.
		Rothko stated, "silence is so accurate." By the late 1950's the public started to recognize, enjoy, and appreciate Rothko's abstract work, and as a result his reputation began to grow.
		Rothko was excited about this project because he was able to have control over where the paintings were hung.
	arts-sciences.cua.edu /art/nmh/332/MAB/rothko.htm (733 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		When he was in Houston for the Rothko Chapel opening in February 1971, the chapel donors asked him to compose a tribute to Rothko, who had killed himself in 1970 after completing a suite of 14 large paintings for the inside of the octagonal chapel that bears his name.
		It begins and ends with viola solos, the first a wide-spanned declamation punctuated by distant thunder from the timpani, the second a "quasi-Hebraic melody" written when Feldman was 15 years old and underscored by a minimalist pattern on the vibraphone.
		"Rothko's imagery goes right to the edge of his canvas, and I wanted the same effect with the music - that it should permeate the whole octagonal room and not be heard from a certain distance."
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=572 (359 words)

	Seattle Composers Alliance - Score Salon: Tom Baker on Morton Feldman's "Rothko Chapel"
		The Rothko Chapel is a spiritual environment created by the American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) as a place for contemplation where men and women of all faiths, or of none, may meditate in silence, in solitude or celebration together.
		For this chapel, built in 1971 by the Ménil Foundation in Houston, Texas, Rothko painted fourteen large canvasses.
		Rothko's imagery goes right to the edge of his canvas, and I wanted the same effect with the music - that it should permeate the whole octagonal-shaped room and not be heard from a certain distance.
	www.seattlecomposers.org /events/past2002/baker.html (438 words)

	Rothko Chapel - Houston, TX, 77006 - Citysearch
		Rothko, whose work suggests the mythic power of primitive art, painted these between 1965 and 1966 expressly for the chapel, which has inspired meditation and even music.
		The chapel, founded by John and Dominique de Menil, was dedicated in 1971 as an intimate sanctuary available to people of every belief, hosting religious ceremonies for all faiths.
		The Rothko Chapel is not a museum, nor should it be mistaken for one.
	houston.citysearch.com /profile/9843530/houston_tx/... (354 words)

	Mark Rothko - Vidal
		When the Rothko Chapel was inaugurated in February 1971, he had been dead since a year.
		Rothko has denied that the fourteen paintings (three triptychs and five panels) for the Chapel stand for the fourteen Stations of the Cross.
		Nor was Rothko unfamiliar with Christian themes: in a sense, the Chapel paintings are non-representational extensions of the symbolism of such early canvases as Crucifixion and Gethsemani.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /vidal.genevieve/rothko/eng/cnt_12.htm (1193 words)

	Mark Rothko
		Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia in 1903, and emigrated to the United States in 1913.
		Rothko was a member of what has become known as the Abstract Expressionist or New York School, and he painted in the Expressionist and Surrealist styles.
		Rothko is covered on pages 139-146 of this text, which includes writings by critics, artists' statements and works, and a bibliography.
	ils.unc.edu /~knupm/rothko.html (1524 words)

	Mark Rothko
		It is clear that Rothko was aware of these formal and functional requirements of a mural; it is also clear that he was constitutionally incapable of meeting them.
		With Rothko, therefore, it hardly matters that he turned his colored rectangles on their side the better to achieve architectonic images; they do not work because he is, for all practical purposes, turning Nature and his own nature on their side.
		The third set, those now installed in the "Rothko Chapel" of the de Menil collection in Houston, are somewhat more in keeping with the purpose of their environment.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/R/rothko.html (3499 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: ROTHKO CHAPEL
		The Rothko Chapel, on Yupon Street and Sul Ross in Houston, was commissioned by Dominique and John de Menil.
		The chapel itself is an austere structure without windows; the skylight that Rothko insisted upon proved to be a poor source for lighting the paintings, and in 1978 a baffle system was introduced.
		The Rothko Chapel is owned and directed by the Rothko Chapel Board, of which Dominique de Menil is president and Thompson L.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/RR/klr1.html (556 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Rothko - Biography
		Rothko attended Yale University, New Haven, on a scholarship from 1921 to 1923.
		Rothko’s first solo exhibition in New York was held at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in 1933.
		In 1947 and 1949, Rothko taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, where Clyfford Still was a fellow instructor.
	www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_138.html (364 words)

	Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel and Why Patterns?
		Rothko Chapel was first performed in 1972 at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, built in 1971 by the Menil Foundation to house the fourteen large paintings commissioned by John and Dominique de Menil.
		I can only surmise from seeing those that the Chapel must be a deeply moving experience.) The economy of Feldman's music echoes the simplicity of Rothko's imagery, and it is as hard to find antecedents for Feldman's composition as it is for Rothko's paintings.
		This is not to say that there is no dramatic tension; indeed, there are passages of vivid intensity that contrast with passages of severely articulated coolness until the final section, which is dominated by a "quasi-Hebraic" viola solo that is quite traditionally melodic and quite beautiful.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_mortonfeldman_omni.html (773 words)

	Southern Exposure concert
		Britt Cooper, doctoral student in choral conducting who will conduct the USC Graduate Vocal Ensemble in their performance of Rothko Chapel, will discuss his role as conductor and his response to the piece at 6:30 p.m.
		The performance of Rothko Chapel, featuring the vocal ensemble, solo violist, and percussionist, will follow the lectures.
		“Rothko Chapel is extremely quiet and very meditative as would befit a piece about a chapel, and it’s very representative of Feldman’s work,” he said.
	www.sc.edu /usctimes/articles/2003/2003-03/southern_exposure_II.html (454 words)

	Visitor Information -- www.rothkochapel.org
		The chapel is located on the corner of Sul Ross and Yupon in the heart of Houston's museum district.
		Photography and videotaping are not permitted in the Chapel.
		If you are interested in scheduling a group visit, please e-mail alice@rothkochapel.org or call the Chapel office at 713.524.9839.
	www.rothkochapel.org /visitor.htm (151 words)

	Nodelman, The Rothko Chapel Paintings, University of Texas Press
		The paintings executed in 1964-1967 by American artist Mark Rothko for the Rothko Chapel in Houston represent the fulfillment of the artist's lifelong ambition and a breakthrough in twentieth-century art.
		This proved to be the catalyst for a new mode of pictorial dynamics based on a kind of interaction of paintings, architecture, and light previously unknown.
		As viewers move about the Chapel's octagonal enclosure, over whose walls the fourteen panels are continuously distributed, they discover systems of pictorial interactions which become the terms or characters of a cosmological drama in which the viewer is a necessary participant.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/nodrot.html (223 words)

	JazzHouston \| Houston Jazz Venues \| Rothko Chapel
		Beautiful and serene, the Rothko Chapel is an ecumenical shrine housing 14 original Rothko paintings.
		However, Mark Rothko killed himself before the Chapel was finished, so he never saw his works in their intended context.
		And on those rare occasions when concerts are scheduled in this space, it is bound to be transcendent by virtue of proximity alone.
	www.jazzhouston.com /venues/about.jsp?key=40 (91 words)

	Rothko Chapel; Why Patterns?
		As time goes on, this music seems to have increased relevance to the climate of the 1990s with its ready response to the spiritual minimalism of Pärt or Tavener.
		While I was in Houston for the opening ceremonies of the Rothko Chapel, my friends John and Dominique de Ménil asked me to write a composition as a tribute to Rothko to be performed in the chapel the following year.
		To a large degree, my choice of instruments (in terms of forces used, balance and timbre) was affected by the space of the chapel as well as the paintings.
	www.newalbion.com /NA039 (423 words)

	Perspectives of New Music: 'Rothko Chapel' and Rothko's chapel. (Mark Rothko, Morton Feldman)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Morton Feldman composed 'Rothko Chapel' as a tribute to Mark Rothko's paintings in a chapel, and the music matches the spiritual energy of Rothko's work.
		Principles of Rothko's painting are incorporated into the musical style.
		IN 1964 MARK ROTHKO agreed to provide paintings for a catholic chapel being planned in Houston.(1) The founders of the project, John and Dominique de Menil, chose Rothko in part...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:16200745&... (212 words)

	Spacetaker\| Your Houston Cultural Arts Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Chapel has two vocations: contemplation and action.
		It is a place alive with religious ceremonies of all faiths, and where the experience and understanding of all traditions are encouraged and made available.
		Action takes form of supporting human rights, and thus the Chapel has become a rallying place for all people concerned with peace, freedom, and social justice throughout the world.
	www.spacetaker.org /org?org_id=43 (127 words)

	Mark Rothko
		Rothko emigrated to the United States in 1913.
		In the mid-1940s Rothko experimented with abstraction, arranging intense colors in irregular shapes.
		Rothko's images to some degree presaged some of the techniques of the later
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0842505.html (163 words)

	Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Rothko Chapel
		Tim Johnson has written a captivating appreciation of Morton Feldman's Rothko Chapel, part of an ongoing celebration of favorite works of the last forty years.
		The list is itself a fine example of ecumenical, non-polemical new-music attitude (see the post on style wars below): it enshrines the arch-simplicity of Arvo Pärt alongside the arch-complexity of Brian Ferneyhough.
		It does help explain Rothko Chapel, written the previous year.
	www.therestisnoise.com /2005/01/rothko_chapel.html (238 words)

	3quarksdaily: Rothko Chapel
		Dedicated in 1971 as the Ecumenical Chapel for Human Development, but rarely referred to as such, the Rothko Chapel stands conspicuously in an inconspicuous Houston neighborhood.
		I grew up with the Rothko Chapel, and still manage to go there for a visit when I visit my family.
		Right nearby is the De Menil gallery, built much later by the De Menil's, one time patrons of Rothko, and designed by Renzo Piano.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2005/08/rothko_chapel.html (152 words)

	Hot Town, Cool City \| Rothko Chapel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The chapel is a somewhat interesting structure and unique place, but don’t expect to be inspired by the paintings.
		I stared at them for some time, but was never able to discern any images.
		I’d much rather be inspired by something like the Marc Chagall windows in the Fraumunster Kirche in Zurich.
	www.hottowncoolcity.org /view/site/detail/5 (183 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 96048538 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Publisher description for The Rothko Chapel paintings : origins, structure, meaning / Sheldon Nodelman.
		The Rothko Chapel Paintings explores this interdependence of paintings and place.
		Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970 Criticism and interpretation, Rothko Chapel (Houston, Tex,)Houston (Tex,) Buildings, structures, etc
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/texas041/96048538.html (258 words)

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