The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings … - Barnett Newman

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The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings or with the mystery of his own personality but with the penetration into the world-mystery. His imagination is therefore attempting to dig into metaphysical secrets.

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Barnett Newman (29 January 1905 – 4 July 1970) 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.

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Surrealism, is interested in a dream world that will penetrate the human psyche.

Genesis I: 'The earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And God said, let there be light, and there was light.'

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The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings or with the mystery of his own personality but with the penetration into the world-mystery… - Barnett Newman

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