Barnett Newman | AB EX NY
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2010
- From the Curator: Barnett Newman
Abstract Expressionist New York
The Museum of Modern Art, October 3, 2010--April 11, 2011
MoMA.org/abexny
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Images courtesy of Barnett Newman Foundation; Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Fred W. McDarrah; Getty Images; Barney Tobey, The New Yorker; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art
one of the most illuminating videos I found not only about newman but also about american abstract expressionism
Very insightful; Newman gets it.
This is very influential, informative, insightful, and inspirational! Great video! 😊👍
Now that I have learned a bit about Rothco and Newman, I would so much like to see their large paintings in person - Preferrably 18 inches away from the canvas. I am sure the experience would be amazing - but you would really need to be there.
Zen. Her lessons are always a delight.
I'll say this...It's human beings who assign value to things. If we don't need it or think we need it... it is of little value to us. We do have the unique ability to value things that are not truly worthwhile, however what we think we need can affect our actual well being. Each individual is to decide, hopefully in harmony with reality. When the appreciation becomes as much of a task for the observer as creation for the artist...the question becomes "What really is the art or the product?" "Is it the painting or is it the "theater" surrounding the artwork, involving the observer and the culture." All the world...
It's worth 105 million because it's not 2 layers only.. It's many layers. That's what separates a Newman from a wall
Ann Temkin is a national treasure,
You couldn't be more wrong. When Newman made these paintings there was hardly an 'art market' and even up to his death his paintings were far from accepted. You do prove though that even today, they are still challenging works.
People only accept and think highly of Newman for they were told so. At the time no one looked twice, and if a nameless artist did this exact work the same would happen. Only the fabricated fame led importance to these works, not merit or actual profound meaning.
Barnett Newman was trolling everyone
In a more ethical world, to spend tens of millions of dollars on works of art would be status-lowering, not status-enhancing - Peter Singer
Let's all spend $10m or more on a piece of a wall and hope that it goes up in value.
Reply Jah Ha: No B. Newman was neglected for a long time. He even gave up painting for some time. Clement Greenberg helped him to start again.
I don’t get it. I’m trying here... I just can’t appreciate his work.
His works were so unique, so different that most people couldn't comprehend the why & the where, way before the question of how ever came to mind. Truly a trailblazer - like his works or not - no one before him had created the types of works he did at the time. And as simple as they all appear to be, they are actually fairly complex paintings... their size, shapes and their layers of different finishes, application styles and textures.
I like his paintings
“In a world in which more than six million children die each year because they lack safe drinking water or mosquito nets, or because they have not been immunized against measles, couldn’t you find something better to do with your money?” - Peter Singer
Nice idealism in that quote, and similar to Gill Scott-Heron's poem 'Whitey on the Moon' chastising the spend on space exploration. In reality it's not just culture or science but 99% of all other human activity that is effectively rendered meaningless on those singular terms.
it was essential for them to form signature style... because(as e.g. Dicke says) art market force(or urged, induce) them to do it. It wasn't artistic choice but pure calculation
Did Newman have a successful life from his style of painting?
2:30 Me trying to figure out what's so special about this art 🙄
Lovely work.
If this is a world renown painting, you should see my kindergarten sketches.
For me the best of Newman's paintings are sublime. I feel I know precisely why he painted them - I feel as though I know exactly what they mean - and I felt this way on first sight. They are about praise and reverence for perfection. They are totally joyous in some way. I don't understand what the hell his critics are on about. You don't like them? ...Don't bloody buy one - don't look at them, you muppets - look away... It's so easy! Chill out. WE love them - whatever YOU think.
i do like the art Newman made..I can appreciate it..esp. the white one and the black one...but their ideas and thoughts do seem a lot pretentious , you know..they generally are I think....but you need not trash the work just because the artist is a bit pretentious.
lol She calls painting a "secular medium" and asserts that spirituality is "unfashionable"! This is why pervasive atheism is just plain silly. Be it in accordance w/ any one religion or religion in general, there is NOTHING more universal that the spiritual. Spirituality does not go out of fashion, even if religion may wax and wane in popularity. The spiritual is the abnormal stirring, the inexplicable shift, an often unnoticed swaying, and to express that or portray it IS ART! Open up! =|
Okay I do find them beautiful, like really nice, but would I pay more than $5 for one of them? HELL NA!
Just because he made lots of decisions, doesn't make it art. Every time I look at a Newman painting I get only one profound anger that so people need get such a deep satisfaction that they are above the average person, profound enough to understand. It's just pretentious bullshit.
Well, what is there to say about Barnett Newman? I submit there is nothing meaningful to say about his paintings, and that all the books and magazine articles amount to useless flapdoodle and embarrassing little excerpts from "The Emperor's Clothes".
no offense but I don't see anything artistic in his paintings I think there are people with much more talent than him🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️