Untitled, 1960 triumphantly embodies Rothko’s creative crescendo and the full maturation of his extraordinary artistic practice. Committed to more intensively exploring the power of art to elicit strong emotional reactions, the artist began to abandon his characteristic bright colors of the 1950s, in favor of more romantic and spiritual deep reds and burgundies. The subdued color palette of deep burgundy, warm blush, royal blue, black-grey and ephemeral cloud-white is reminiscent of the palette he explored in the famed Seagram Murals, a portion of which remain on view at The Tate Modern. The scale, proportioned directly to the human body, creates an emotional – and indeed, sublime – viewing opportunity that allows one to experientially enter the painting.