Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

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.