i12bent: My number one color-field artist is obviously Rothko, but Barnett Newman (Jan. 29, 1905 - 1970) is a fine artist, too… We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth. — June 13, 1943 edition of the New York Times, brief manifesto: Barnett Newman with Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb… Above: Barnett Newman: Covenant, 1949 - Oil on canvas (Hirshhorn)

i12bent:

My number one color-field artist is obviously Rothko, but Barnett Newman (Jan. 29, 1905 - 1970) is a fine artist, too…

We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth. — June 13, 1943 edition of the New York Times, brief manifesto: Barnett Newman with Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb…

Above: Barnett Newman: Covenant, 1949 - Oil on canvas (Hirshhorn)

i12bent: My number one color-field artist is obviously Rothko, but Barnett Newman (Jan. 29, 1905 - 1970) is a fine artist, too… We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth. — June 13, 1943 edition of the New York Times, brief manifesto: Barnett Newman with Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb… Above: Barnett Newman: Covenant, 1949 - Oil on canvas (Hirshhorn)

i12bent:

My number one color-field artist is obviously Rothko, but Barnett Newman (Jan. 29, 1905 - 1970) is a fine artist, too…

We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth. — June 13, 1943 edition of the New York Times, brief manifesto: Barnett Newman with Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb…

Above: Barnett Newman: Covenant, 1949 - Oil on canvas (Hirshhorn)

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  7. doodleology said: <3 for Barnett Newman.
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