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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.
- Introduction
- Most Important Writings
- On Abstract Art
- On Art and Inquiry
- On Beauty
- Barnett Newman vs. Ad Reinhardt
- In Discussion with Hess on Stations of The Cross
Newman stands out among artists of the New York School for the quantity of writing he produced, particularly in the early to mid 1940s. Discussion and ideas remained important to him, and he likened abstract thought to the non-objective forms of "primitive" art - both, he believed, were aimed at generalization and classification. However, as an art...
'The First Man Was an Artist' Tiger's Eye October 1947 Newman worked as an associate editor for Tiger's Eye, and 'The First Man Was an Artist' was published in the magazine's first year. In the essay, Newman asserted the priority of the aesthetic over the social: "The human in language is literature," he wrote, "not communication." Humans were arti...
Newman considered himself a pure artist, working with pure forms. For a 1947 exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery, entitled The Ideographic Picture, he wrote, "The basis of an aesthetic act is the pure idea. But the pure idea is, of necessity, an aesthetic act." Newman affirmed his belief that authentic, expressive abstract art was void of symbolism...
For the first issue of Tiger's Eye, in October 1947, Newman wrote one of his most famous essays, 'The First Man Was an Artist'. In it he sought to establish a rather unorthodox link between art and science; "For there is a difference between method and inquiry," he wrote. "Scientific inquiry, from its beginnings, has perpetually asked a single and ...
According to Newman, all of modern art had been a quest to negate the classical standards of beauty established during the Renaissance. The early Modernists - artists such as Édouard Manet and the Impressionists- had failed to fully achieve this, and the task of completion was left to his own generation. "I believe that here in America," he wrote i...
In 1956, Ad Reinhardt wrote an article in College Art Journal entitled 'The Artist in Search of an Academy', in which he derided Barnett Newman as "the artist-professor and traveling-design-salesman, the Art-Digest-philosopher-poet and Bauhaus-exerciser, the avant-garde-huckster-handicraftsman and educational-shop-keeper, the holy-roller-explainer-...
In a public conversation between Thomas B. Hess and Newman, staged at the Guggenheim Museum on May 1, 1966, Newman was asked a series of questions regarding his Stations of the Crossseries (1958-66), which were exhibited at the museum in Newman's very first solo exhibition at a public gallery. "When I call them Stations of the Cross," he said, "I a...
- American
- January 29, 1905
- New York, New York
- July 4, 1970
Barnett Newman (Nova Iorque, 29 de janeiro de 1905 – Nova Iorque, 4 de julho de 1970), foi um pintor estado-unidense. A sua obra está associada ao abstracionismo , tendo sido um destacado integrante da pintura de campos coloridos.
- American
- New York City, New York, United States
As a monumentally significant early painting of Barnett Newman’s vital career, Genesis – The Break stands as an indisputable arbiter of Abstract Expressionism and, accordingly, a new and iconic era of American art.
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.
Explore Newman's Genesis - The Break (1946), a highlight of the 13 November 2013 Contemporary Art Evening Auction. A pivotal piece that helps define the art...
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- Sotheby's
20 de mar. de 2024 · The title of Barnett Newman’s painting Adam 1951, 1952 (Tate T01091; fig.1) aligns it with a cluster of other pictures by the artist that reference the biblical account of humankind’s beginnings: Eve 1950 (Tate T03081; fig.2), Genesis: The Break 1946 (private collection), The Beginning 1946 (Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago) and ...
