Barnett Newman — American Artist born on January 29, 1905, died on July 04, 1970

Barnett Newman 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. His paintings are existential in tone and content, explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality, presence, and contingency... (wikipedia)

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.