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rothko in the turner gallery???

A photo of a gallery with a Turner painting next to a Rothko painting. They share similar yellow, orange, and green colors.ALT

I can’t get it right in the photo but going absolutely bonkers over the way the colors just like. blur across from the rothko (1950) to the turner (1845). this whole room is full of these abstract colors it’s like they’re bleeding between the picture frames with no regard for time

A museum description of a painting reading: "Mark Rothko 1903-1970 Born Daugavpils, Latvia, lived Daugavpils, Portland (Oregon), New York Untitled c.1950-2 Oil paint on canvas North American artist Mark Rothko greatly admired Turner. He famously remarked in 1966: 'This man Turner, he learnt a lot from me'. The works in this room - unfinished paintings from late in Turner's life - appealed to Rothko. Late in his own career, he created paintings like this one which use rectangles of intense colour to convey emotion. In 1969 Rothko gave a group of paintings to Tate, hoping they would be displayed near those of Turner."ALT

wait wait hold on a second.