What is the significance of Mark Rothko's work?

Question: What is the significance of Mark Rothko's work!?
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I can try to share the significance Rothko's work has on me!.

I live in Ohio but when I am in Houston I visit the Rothko chapel!.
Benches are placed in front of each of the huge canvases that are angled walls!. The benches place the viewer at a distance where the work envelopes your entire field of vision!.
After quietly staring at the canvasses subtle shapes start to emerge form the layered glazes of color!. Some shapes advance and others recede for me!. Some rise upwards, float sideways or fall!.
In a subconscious kind of way I become a participant in the work!.
I find the experience meditative, calming, and spiritual!.
I leave the Chapel feeling much better than when I went in!.
Rothko's work has a profound effect on me!.

By the way,
His works do not reproduce well at all in print!. Please don't judge the paintings from printed photos in a book or on line!. You've got to experience them in person!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

His paintings are designed to absorb and engulf the spectator!. His ideas were influenced by Jung and Nietzsche!. He was involved in eternal myth!. His paintings had no focus and were expressions of indefinite, ambiguous expansion; the edges of his forms were blurred and luminous!. By 1949 he simplified his forms into rectangles!.

In the 1960's he did a series of 14 paintings for a chapel in Houston, Texas!. He even engaged in the triptych!. In the Middle Ages the triptych was used for altarpieces!. These paintings had harder edges than his earlier works!. They were all large paintings that were more amorphous than his earlier works!. Most of the paintings were dark but towards the top the colors became brighter and lighter in color, conveying the sense of transcendence!. They covered all of the walls of the chapel!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

good question!.!.!.!.you always learn about him in art classes but it is not as if he is the founding father of abstraction!.!.!.which is a title that he denied!.!.!.idk but he is the only abstract painter that I can stand (actually Motherwell and Kline aren't bad!.!.!.but their artwork is not pretty)!.!.!.I think the significance of his work is that he was simply well liked by the art community and quite favored

Shelby!.!.!.lover of Degas and Rothko and some others
hater of PicasscoWww@QuestionHome@Com