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Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American painter. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract ... Onement 1, 1948.
The Stations of the Cross is a series of fifteen abstract expressionist paintings created between 1958 and 1966 by Barnett Newman, often considered to be his greatest work. [1] It consists of fourteen paintings, each named after one of Jesus's fourteen Stations, followed by a coda, Be II. Unlike most depictions of the Stations of the Cross ...
Barnett Newman, Onement 1, 1948. During the 1940s Barnett Newman wrote several articles about the new American painting. Barnett Newman, a late member of the Uptown Group, wrote catalogue forewords and reviews, and by the late 1940s became an exhibiting artist at Betty Parsons Gallery. His first solo show was in 1948.
Vir Heroicus Sublimis is a 1951 painting by Barnett Newman, [1] an American painter who was a key part of the abstract expressionist movement. Vir Heroicus Sublimis—"Man, Heroic and Sublime" in Latin—attempts to evoke a reaction from its viewers through its overwhelming scale (his largest canvas yet at the time he released it) and saturated color.
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Barnett Newman – Onement I; Sidney Nolan – The Abandoned Mine; Jackson Pollock – No. 5, 1948; Anne Redpath – Window in Menton; Constance Stokes – Girl in Red Tights (approx. date) Rufino Tamayo – Cazadores de mariposas; Andrew Wyeth. Christina's World; McVey's Barn; Karl
Barnett Newman is considered one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. Newman's mature work is characterized by areas of color pure and flat separated by thin vertical lines, or "zips" as Newman called them, exemplified by Vir Heroicus Sublimis in the collection of MoMA.