Barnett Newman - Voice Of Fire: Classic Or Dud?

vertical stripes make you look thinner.

i can.

i think it is beutiful.
also barnett newmans are hot on the market right now, and if we sold it we would make a profit.

there are few good ones

modern art ended in the 60s, when it made it to the final two branches, the camp and conceptulaims given birth from dada and whose realtions include warhol

and the difficult,aesthic formailsits, who could only go onto more and more reductionist models, ending in minimalism (the newman is not techically minimalism, but the beginning of this ending.

also its pretty

Barnett Newman rules. My art is very much inspired by him.

i want to see it when i get to la

if you like pretty, you'll like it. when are you coming out to da westside?

Yeah, there are a couple of things. First, there's just an immediate striking, almost majestic quality to it, greatly enhanced by how it's displayed in the gallery. Something to do with the shades and proportions, I think. The blues come off so cool and the red so bold and vibrant? And then there's sort of a shimmering quality that people always talk about at the edges where the colours meet. Sometimes I even think it has a sort of erotic quality, that a lot of AE art does. But it's really hard to explain how any of this is generated from three vertical stripes in primary colours when someone bitches "$1.6M for three stripes! I could do that with a paint roller!"

The Barnett Newman show in London was my artistic highlight of last year, I think. I don't know this work, offhand.