Unfinished painting
Abstract Expressionism
1970
213.0 x 193.0 cm
バーネット・ニューマン(1905 – 1970)
抽象表現主義のキーパーソン、バーネット・ニューマン(1905-1970)。象徴的な「ジップ」絵画やカラフィールド作品を通して、人間の精神性を探求した画家。ミニマリズムにも影響を与えたモダニズムアート。
This painting’s history reveals how precarious the notion of finish can be in abstract art in general and in the work of one towering figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement in particular. A 1971 scholarly publication presented the work as finished: Untitled (number 2). However, a typewritten inventory of Newman’s studio made after the artist’s death (unknown, apparently, to the author of the aforementioned book) lists the canvas as Untitled 1970 #2 (unfinished), a status now accepted by art historians. Many of Newman’s contemporaries attacked the idea of a finished work of art as an artificial convention, but Newman disavowed it for different reasons. For him, painting was a lifelong struggle, an ongoing act of labor that precluded finishing on both a practical and a philosophical level.
作品詳細
- 作品名: Unfinished painting
- 作家: バーネット・ニューマン
- 制作年: 1970
- 作品サイズ: 213.0 x 193.0 cm
- 技法: Portrait
- 著作権の状態: 著作権保護対象
- 制作時期: Mature Period
- カラーパレット: Dark
- キーワード: newman zips , color block art , modern painting
- 彩度: Vivid