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Broken Obelisk, perhaps the best American sculpture of its time, is Newman's meditation on ancient Egypt: a steel pyramid, from whose apex an inverted obelisk rises like a beam of light. Here, Newman bypassed the Western associations of pyramids and broken columns with death, and produced a life-affirming image of transcendence.
File talk: Barnett Newman, Broken Obelisk (designed 1963, cast 1967), Quadrangle, Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington - 20060328.jpg
The painting series was unveiled at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1966, in an exhibition titled The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachthani. [5] [6] [7]The National Gallery of Art bought the paintings in 1987 from Newman's widow for an estimated $5 to $7 million, through a donation from Robert and Jane Meyerhoff.
It [Broken Obelisk or "Smoke and Glass" or "The X"] had generated some controversy in Washington, a city known for its monumental sculptures, as it [Broken Obelisk or "Smoke and Glass" or "The X"] appeared as a reference to a broken upside-down Washington monument [ah! [Broken Obelisk]! ] at a time of civil unrest in 1968.
The reliefs on the obelisk have accompanying epigraphs, but besides these the obelisk also possesses a longer inscription that records one of the latest versions of Shalmaneser III's annals, covering the period from his accessional year to his 33rd regnal year. The Broken Obelisk, that was also discovered by Rassam at Nineveh.
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Broken Obelisk in front of the Rothko Chapel A distinctive sculpture by Barnett Newman , Broken Obelisk , was installed in 1970 in front of the chapel. The sculpture sits in a reflecting pool designed by Philip Johnson and it is dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. , who was assassinated in 1968 .
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