This artist created a grid of barbed wire splashed with red paint representing blood in a work entitled Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley.
This artist created a grid of barbed wire splashed with red paint representing blood in a work entitled Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley. He wrote that "the human in language is literature, not communication" in his essay "The First Man Was an Artist," published while editor for Tiger's Eye – in other settings, he denied that art is concerned with the problem of beauty and famously quipped "aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds." Later in life, he painted a series of lithographs dubbed the 18 Cantos and a series entitled Who's Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue?. His more famous work includes an eighteen-foot wide red canvas entitled Vir Heroicus Sublimis, now housed at MOMA, and a massive sculpture called the Broken Obelisk which sits outside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, as well as the fourteen paintings in his celebrated Stations of the Cross group. FTP, name this abstract expressionist famous for canvases featuring long vertical lines that he called "zips."
This artist created a grid of barbed wire splashed with red paint representing blood in a work entitled Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley.
Barnett {Newman}