Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
    Every day,
Every day,
Tell the hours
By their shadows,
By their shadows.
Barnett Newman by Irving Penn in the Irving Penn Portraits exhibition. [Source: National Portrait Gallery] The artist once said “It is interesting to me to notice how difficult it is for people to take the intense heat and blaze of my color. If my paintings were empty they could take them with ease.”(link)
Eve 1950  Barnett Newman link
Mitternacht Blau Midnight Blue 1970   by Barnett Newman
Abraham,1949 Barnett Newman   [+]  (American, 1905-1970) link
Barnett Newman   [+] from Eighteen Cantos, Canto IV 1963-4 link      Canto V from 18 Cantos Barnett Newman (American, 1905-1970)
Stations of the Cross Twelfth Station, c.1965  by Barnett Newman [+]             First Station 1958 Magna on canvas             Second Station 1958 Magna on canvas             Third Station 1960 Oil on canvas                Fourth Station 1967 Oil on canvas “The Stations of the Cross presents a virtuoso demonstration of Newman’s approach to painting. Although the series is purely abstract, it shares some of the characteristics found in traditional religious depictions of the Passion of Christ: its number of scenes (fourteen) and the somber mood. According to the artist, the series takes its meaning from Christ’s cry on the cross- “Lema Sabachthani” (God, Why have you forsaken me?)-a cry that might have come not just from Christ, but from martyrs throughout the course of human history. Each canvas measures about 78 by 60 inches, an imposing but not overwhelming size that Newman called “a human scale for the human cry…” http://www.philamuseum.org/micro_sites/exhibitions/newman/galleries/eleven.shtml
[+] livinglauren: Barnett Newman, The Cry, 1946
Gothic Game Fred G. Becker (1913 - 2004)
wonderfulambiguity: Brassaï, Chartres in Winter, 1946
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