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The Menil Collection's Barnett Newman show exerts a gravitational pull ... when he put tape down the middle of the small red painting "Onement." It looked like a stripe but he thought of it ...
“I give a little bit of background on Barnett Newman, and where these works came ... “Be II,” and the only hint of color (a stripe of red-orange) in the room. When they were shown together ...
Red (If They Come in the Morning)” (2011). If you want to understand what might irk the art world, you need only go to the exhibition David Diao: On Barnett Newman, 1991–2023 at Greene Naftali ...
This is Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, which stands in Red Square at UW. Four versions of it exist, one in Houston. Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones today provides a reminder of the obelisk's ...
By a delicious historical coincidence, another New Man, this time unequivocally Jewish–the Abstract Expressionist Barnett ... an uneven red stripe down the middle, and nobody but Newman himself ...
For much of the 1990s, the controversy that rocked a then-peaceful, happy Netherlands revolved around an art work: specifically, "Who's Afraid Of Red, Yellow, and Blue III," by Barnett Newman ...
Barnett Newman covered a huge canvas, 5.4 m by 2.4 m, with just two colours of acrylic paint—twin vertical stripes of ultramarine blue flanking a middle one of cadmium red. Come spring ...
Which, given that the canvas he chose—Barnett Newman’s “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III”—is literally a hundred and forty square feet of red oil paint, flanked by two thin ...