Mark Rothko was an American abstract painter, working from the early 1930s until his death in 1970 (Abstract Art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate description of a visual “reality”, i.e. a person, place, or thing).
Rothko primarily painted using the color schemes (arrangements or groupings); Complimentary, Monochromatic and Analogous.
Complimentary Colors are two colors that are on opposite sides of the color wheel and when combined or mixed together, they cancel each other out, making brown or gray. The Complimentary sets are red/green, yellow/purple, orange/blue.
Monochromatic Color schemes are created from a single base color and extended using shades (adding black to a color), and tints (adding white to a color).
Analogous Color are any 3 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel for example, green, blue, and purple or orange, red, and yellow.
Rothko is famous for his Multiform paintings. However, he didn’t begin his painting career painting only pure color and shape. As he matured as an artist, he became uninterested in depicting reality, instead, he wanted to use “color to express/ evoke emotion”.