Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock both developed their painting styles in New York during the 1940s and 1950s. They were a part of the group of artists known as the abstract expressionists. Although each of the artists associated with this movement worked in a very individual style, they were linked by the desire to find a new means of artistic expression. Rather than including recognizable objects in their work, they used the elements of painting such as color, line, shape, brushstrokes, texture, and light, to express emotions. Their influences included Native American, pre-Columbian, Mexican, and African art, along with the modern European movement and surrealism, which looked to dreams and the unconscious for subject matter. The paintings are completely abstract, with no recognizable objects from the real world, or non objective, and the purpose of their art is to create e

We have seen how Rothko and Pollock, like so many Modernist painters before them, tried to explore painting and concentrate on what is particular to that medium: paint, surface, and canvas. In so doing, we have seen how they got rid of what had become the traditional subject matter of painting and have started a new revolution in painting.

Abstract expressionism can be roughly divided into two general types. Jackson Pollock was representative of "action" or gesture painting, in which the artist's process and movements are an important aspect of the end result. Mark Rothko's work is an example of color-field painting, in which the artist is more concerned with creating an overall field of paint. Pollock created many "drip" paintings, That included black and white along with color, and most of Rothko's images consisted of three floating rectangles in various color combinations. By turning to new forms of expression, Pollock, Rothko, and their colleagues brought American painting to international prominence and for the first time, an American city, New York, replaced Paris and other European cities, as the leader of the art world.

In The National Museum of Art, Lavender Mist is displayed on a wall by itself. This adds to the grand gestured lines throughout the piece because there is no interference with any other art works. When admiring the painting, one becomes engulfed in it's ability to capture the viewers and like much Pollock himself, Lavender Mist was an unusual and exciting modern painting.

Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothkos' art in the mid 1900s started a new string of abstract and modern art. The two artists shared the idea of breaking away from the limitations of traditional "exact likeness" painting and moved toward something fresh and exciting. The creation of their art work was approached by the two in different ways and Pollock gained more success from his brilliant methods and his thought processes for making art. But, Rothko had a great idea to present simple color

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