The banded backgrounds gave way to pure fields of color, staging grounds for the serene floating shapes of the foreground. But they're beautiful in their own right. An untitled painting from 1948, a big concoction of soft oranges, reds and pinks, is full of diffuse organic shapes that occupy the entire space of the canvas. Rothko's mature works, like those in the UA permanent collection, are a gift to the human race. But this stunning piece of abstraction is gorgeous enough to make me regret just a little all the roads he didn't take to their end.
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