Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman (1905–1970) was an American painter who profoundly shaped the landscape of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. Born in New York City to Polish Jewish immigrants, Newman initially pursued philosophy and worked in various roles, including teaching and writing, before dedicating himself fully to art. Though he made paintings in an expressionist style in the 1930s, he later destroyed these early works, signaling a deliberate break and the emergence of…