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NEWMAN Barnett, born 1905 New York - 1970 New York American painter and sculptor. |
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| 1922-30 | Studied
philosophy and ornithology, then an at the Art Students League in New
York. |
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| Around
1930 became acquainted with Still, Pollock, Gottlieb and Avery. |
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| 1931-39 | Worked
from 1931 -1939 as an an teacher in the New York high school system. |
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| 1947/48 | After
destroying of his early artworks, he published essays in 1947/48 in
'Tiger's Eye' magazine (of which he was co-publisher), including his two
most important treatises on painting: 'The First Man was an Artist
and The Sublime is Now'. |
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| 1948 | Founded
the art school Subject of the Artist with Baziotes, Motherwell and
Rothko. |
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| 1959 | Lectureship
at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. |
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| 1959 | Participation
in documenta 2 in Kassel. |
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| 1962-1964 | Lecturer
at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. |
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| 1968 | Participation in documenta 4 in Kassel. | ||
Not until the age of 43 did Newman discover his own painting style in mystical abstraction. With his variations on thin vertical colour stripes on a monochrome background, he became one of the most important exponents of Color Field Painting. |
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