The Shh Riot: How Mark Rothko’s Tincture Fields Conquered the Algorithm

No painter sets out to invent a genre with a name as flat as “color field.” The term was applied retroactively, a piece of critical shorthand that stuck because nothing else fit. Mark Rothko didn’t ask for it, and neither did his two closest peers in the designation, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still.

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