Comparing the First & Last Paintings of Famous Artists

Before he painted his massive rectangles of color, Mark Rothko captured the loneliness of city life. In 1937, he painted Subway, an expressionistic scene showing commuters sitting on a New York platform. In the end, he gave us Untitled, which arrived in 1970 and showed a shift in his style. He changed it for a minimalist canvas divided into blood red.