ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM · ARTIST

Barnett Newman

1905–1970 · American · Abstract Expressionism
The zip
Barnett Newman

Newman invented the "zip," a single vertical band splitting a vast field of flat color, and built an entire body of work from that one gesture. It turned a sheer expanse of paint into something monumental and pointed straight ahead to Minimalism.

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Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
1951
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