Wheres Rothko?

Today I was just going to whine about my report card, which I received in the mail last night. BUT, as I walked into my first period class, I was relieved to find the lights off and the smartboard on, which only meant one thing: MOVIE!  So, for the first 47 minutes of my morning, I watched a documentary on the artist, Mark Rothko.  It was fine, not great.  His son and daughter both talked, as well as his apprentice and some friends and fellow artists.  I was pleasantly reminded of his paintings, which are quite famous, but sometimes flit to the back of my mind.  His most famous paintings are huge blocks of colors, which have been painted over multiple times to have a cool shading effect when placed under the light.  He was a perfectionist, although his paintings are not what you would normally think a perfectionist would paint.  They are not of perfectly formed people and buildings, but they are very abstract and modern.  His most famous paintings, which he started creating in the early 1950s, started out with light and vibrant colors and as the years progressed, started turning into darker shades of eggplant, deep blue, and dark greens.  His paintings seem to be very influenced by Henri Matisse's paintings, and his major use of color.  Like his painting, The Red Studio, which is currently at the MoMa.  Rothko is like a mixed breed of Mondrian and Jackson Pollock, with a little Picasso and Matisse thrown in to the mix.  His paintings are much more influential in real life, as all of them are, so I advise to go out and see them in person.  When standing in front of a Rothko, you truly feel like you are being transported into another place.