Unfinished painting
Abstract Expressionism
1970
213.0 x 193.0 cm
Barnett Newman (1905 – 1970)
Barnett Newman foi um pintor americano pioneiro do Expressionismo Abstrato, conhecido por suas obras monumentais como "Vir Heroicus Sublimis" e "Onement VI", que exploram temas espirituais profundos e uma estética minimalista inovadora. Sua influência persiste na arte contemporânea.
This painting’s history reveals how precarious the notion of finish can be in abstract art in general and in the work of one towering figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement in particular. A 1971 scholarly publication presented the work as finished: Untitled (number 2). However, a typewritten inventory of Newman’s studio made after the artist’s death (unknown, apparently, to the author of the aforementioned book) lists the canvas as Untitled 1970 #2 (unfinished), a status now accepted by art historians. Many of Newman’s contemporaries attacked the idea of a finished work of art as an artificial convention, but Newman disavowed it for different reasons. For him, painting was a lifelong struggle, an ongoing act of labor that precluded finishing on both a practical and a philosophical level.
Sobre esta obra
- Título: Unfinished painting
- Artista: Barnett Newman
- Ano: 1970
- Dimensões originais: 213.0 x 193.0 cm
- Formato: Portrait
- Status dos direitos autorais: Protegido por direitos autorais
- Período de criação: Mature Period
- Paleta de cores: Dark
- Palavras-chave: newman zips, color block art, modern painting
- Intensidade de cor: Vivid
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