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The Beginning, 1946 Barnett Newman; Untitled 3, 1950 Barnett Newman; Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley, 1968 Barnett Newman; Gea, 1944–45 Barnett Newman; Canto II, from 18 Cantos, 1963
May 17, 2012 · Barnett Newman. Born in New York in 1905, Newman took classes at the Art Students League while in high school and college. At New York's City College he majored in philosophy, graduating in 1927. Believing that all earlier 20th-century painting styles were obsolete, Newman destroyed most of his paintings from the 1930s and early 1940s.
Abraham. 1949. Roughly the size of a tall man, Abraham is a dark painting with a black zip placed off-center on a brown field. The figure-ground relationship between zip and field is ambiguous, and the work therefore reads almost as a solid slab. Newman compared the experience of viewing it to that of confronting another man head-on.
Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York and New Haven, 2004, p. 109 n. 114, fig. 21 (installation photo, Exh. Basel and tour 1958). Carol C. Mancusi–Ungaro. "The Paintings of Barnett Newman: 'Involved Intuition on the Highest Level'." Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York and New Haven, 2004, pp. 123, 134, fig. 87 (color ...
Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism, and one of the foremost color field painters. His paintings explore the sense of place that viewers experience with art and incorporate simplistic forms to emphasize this feeling.
巴尼特·纽曼（Barnett Newman，1905年1月29日—1970年7月4日），美国艺术家，抽象表现主义的重要代表之一，也是色域绘画流派的先锋。 生平 [ 编辑 ] 纽曼出生在 纽约市 ，来自 波兰 的 犹太人 家庭。
Untitled. 1961. A formative member of the New York School, Barnett Newman established the group's early tenets with the help of Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko. He organized exhibitions and discussion groups, lectured, and wrote about art. His views embraced such fundamental issues as order and chaos, life and death, man and nature, as well as ...
