Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Barnett Newman - 'zips'

Barnett Newman(1905 - 1970)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/BarnettNewman.html 

'Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.

In the 1940s he first worked in a surrealist mode before developing his mature style. This is characterised by areas of color separated by thin vertical lines, or "zips" as Newman called them.'


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