Books by National Gallery of Art
Rothko 2019 Mini Wall Calendar
Mark Rothko (American, b. Russia, 1903–1970), who was central to the development of postwar abstract painting in the United States, is best known for the luminous paintings he made in the 1950s and 1960s. These classic works are characterized by their soft-edged rectangular forms and broad, thin washes of color. Rothko worked on large canvases, but he felt that the scale was intimate, establishing a close physical relationship with the viewer. These extraordinary images invite contemplation and spiritual communion. The works in this calendar are from the collections of the National Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection, both in Washington, DC.
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Rothko 2020 Mini Wall Calendar
by Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art
Mark Rothko (American, born Russia, 1903–1970), who was central to the development of postwar abstract painting in the United States, is best known for the luminous paintings he made in the 1950s and 1960s. These classic works are characterized by their soft-edged rectangular forms and broad, thin washes of color. Rothko worked on large canvases, but he felt that the scale was intimate, establishing a close physical relationship with the viewer. These extraordinary images invite contemplation and spiritual communion. The National Gallery of Art is the largest public repository of Rothko’s works, with a collection that includes nearly three hundred paintings on canvas and paper and a study collection of over six hundred additional works on paper. All of Pomegranate’s calendars are printed with soy-based inks on FSC® certified paper, which means the paper has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® and manufactured by an FSC certified printer. FSC certification promotes responsible forest management by ensuring that forestry practices are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable. FSC license code FSC N001864.
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Rothko 2020 Wall Calendar
by Mark Rothko, National Gallery of Art
Mark Rothko (American, born Russia, 1903–1970), a titan among modern painters, said that the subject matter of his paintings was the extremes of human emotion. His extraordinary achievement was the communication of tragedy and elation through forms reduced to starkest simplicity—oftentimes a pair of rectangles.
Born Marcus Rothkowitz in a Latvian Jewish community, the artist emigrated to the United States at the age of ten. After a series of artistic metamorphoses, he established himself as a leader among New York’s artistic avant-garde in the late 1940s, that moment when the devastation of a global war shunted creative impulses into radically new directions. Rothko died in 1970 at the age of sixty-six.
The National Gallery of Art is the largest public repository of Rothko’s works, with a collection that includes nearly three hundred paintings on canvas and paper and a study collection of more than six hundred works on paper.
All of Pomegranate’s calendars are printed with soy-based inks on FSC® certified paper, which means the paper has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® and manufactured by an FSC certified printer. FSC certification promotes responsible forest management by ensuring that forestry practices are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable.
FSC license code FSC N001864.
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Impressionism 2018 Mni Wall Calendar
Rejecting conventions they considered formulaic and rigid, such artists as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro broke with the mid-nineteenth century French art world both in what they chose to paint (scenes from everyday life) and the manner in which they painted it (with loose, open brushwork). In freeing themselves to explore new forms of expression, these artists and their colleagues, later known as impressionists, took the first steps on the road to modern art.
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Impressionism 2018 Wall Calendar
In the early days of the impressionism movement, convention-bound critics dismissed the artists paintings as crude, unfinished daubings. The impressionists were devoted to the pursuit of light, or rather of its effects on sky, water, and land. Painting quickly to get the impression on canvas before the sunlight s angle shifted, these artists produced work characterized by flickering brushstrokes, bold colors, and indistinct forms. Their paintings, as direct observations of nature, are spontaneous and vibrant depictions of the world around them.
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