Number 10 is a painting by Latvian painter Mark Rothko, an exponent of American abstract expressionism.
Like many works by this author, this work is also characterized by large rectangular surfaces, where the various colors that are close to each other mingle, confining with adjacent ones. Rothko is thus able to create unparalleled transparency effects. This is determined by almost liquid colors with bright tones that blend to the confines. Portrait of Mark Rothko
In Number 10, therefore, there is only a shaded silhouette of a rectangle, since the sign and the figuration are abolished, so the only and true protagonist of this painting is that the color, lying in broad areas not well defined, often overlaps . It gets a sense of mystery and charm, as was the author's intentions. This, in fact, as Barnett Newman, sought a pure abstraction but did not disdain to be bearer of some spiritual implication. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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