The Silence of Mark Rothko

Painter Mark Rothko is best known for imposing canvasses that eschew representation in favor of pure color and texture-using them to express fundamental human emotions. In THE SILENCE OF MARK ROTHKO, we visit Rothko’s studio at 22 Bowery in New York, and go to Florence’s Museo Di San Marco, where the monastic work of Renaissance painter Fra Angelico deeply influenced Rothko’s mission to create environments and not just paintings. In The Hague, filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra introduces us to curator Franz Kaiser of the Gemeentemuseum, as his team installs the works for the first major Rothko exhibit to be held in Holland in 40 years.THE SILENCE OF MARK ROTHKO lingers on paintings and locations – using architectural shots, interiors and streets capes, to link Rothko’s paintings to the world he