# data[].attributes.body
Marianne Von Werefkin

# data[].attributes.body
White on White

# data[].attributes.headline
Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel, Houston, 1971

# data[].attributes.subject
Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel, Houston, 1971

# data[].attributes.body
14 mural/paintings i.e. 7 hard edged black canvases on maroon ground and 7 purple toned paintings
Rothko: 'impenetrable fortresses of colour"
Rothko was part of American Abstract Expressionist (1950s) - expressive use of colour
He was also part of the Colour Field Movement (1960s) - large colour panels intended to envelop viewer
- spiritual experience, contemplative and revealing
- transformative power of art  - akin to religious imagery (pair of triptychs)
- power of abstract art and the divine
- artist died in 1970 - last works

# data[].attributes.body
Steamship, 1895
Watercolour on paper

# data[].attributes.body
Copy of Paul Gauguin’s painting, Nevermore, (n.d)
Oil on canvas

# data[].attributes.body
Abstract with violin (also known as Guitar), 1938
Oil on canvas

# data[].attributes.body
Plink-a-plong, 1893
Oil on canvas

# data[].attributes.body
Sand Dunes at Svinklov, Jutland, Denmark, 1907
Oil on canvas

# data[].attributes.body
Ella Ström, 1919
Oil on canvas