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Barnett Newman

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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.


— Barnett Newman


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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.


— Barnett Newman


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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.


— Barnett Newman


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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.


— Barnett Newman


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Two paintings from the early 1950s for example are called Adam and Eve (see Adam and Eve) and there is also Uriel (1954) and Abraham (1949) a very dark painting which as well as being the name of a biblical patriarch was also the name of Newman's father who had died in 1947. Broken Obelisk
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Barnett Newman (January 29 1905 – July 4 1970) was an American artist.

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