1949

Showing 2 artworks from 1949

Abstract painting · Color Field

Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red

Mark Rothko

1949 · Guggenheim, New York City

Soft-edged bands of color stacked one above another, hovering slightly off the surface. Rothko wanted you to stand close and stay a while.

★ 7.1

Mythological painting · Surrealism

Leda Atomica

Salvador Dali

1949 · Teatro-Museo Dali, Figueres

Nothing in the picture touches anything else. Dalí built it on the physics of the atom, where matter is mostly empty space.

★ 5.6