Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Barnett Newman

Born: January 29, 1905
Died: July 4, 1970 (aged 65)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1951)
- Onement, I (1948)
- Broken Obelisk (1963)
- Onement VI (1953)
- Voice of Fire (1967)
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