Unfinished painting
Abstract Expressionism
1970
213.0 x 193.0 cm
Barnett Newman (1905 – 1970)
Descoperă puterea expresionismului colorat în operele lui Barnett Newman (1905-1970), pionierul unei estetici inovatoare și unul dintre cei mai influenți artiști ai secolului XX, prin intermediul celor mai emblematice „zips” și câmpurilor de culoare puriste.
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.
Detalii despre această operă
- Titlu: Unfinished painting
- Artist: Barnett Newman
- An: 1970
- Dimensiuni originale: 213.0 x 193.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Statutul drepturilor de autor: Protejat de drepturi de autor
- Perioada de creație: Mature Period
- Paleta de culori: Dark
- Cuvinte cheie: newman zips, color block art, modern painting
- Saturație culoare: Vivid
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