This artist's Broken Obelisk was created for the Rothko Chapel, and he employed his idea of the power of separating colors from each other in works like Vic Heroicus Sublimis, a massive red painting divided by irregularly spaced stripes.
In an early essay, this artist wrote, "Instead of making cathedrals out of Christ, man, or 'life,' we are making [them] out of ourselves." That essay encourages art to abandon its emphasis on form in order to pursue the Absolute, and is entitled "The Sublime Is Now." A very thin, smooth vertical bar stands next to a wider jagged column in a sculpture by this artist called Here I (To Marcia). In another sculpture, this artist placed the tip of a pyramid just below the tip of a damaged, upside-down column. Thin sections of blue and yellow form the edges of an entirely red canvas by this artist, which criticizes Mondrian and is entitled (*) Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue? This artist's Broken Obelisk was created for the Rothko Chapel, and he employed his idea of the power of separating colors from each other in works like Vic Heroicus Sublimis, a massive red painting divided by irregularly spaced stripes. For 10 points, name this color field painter who called those characteristic stripes "zips."
In an early essay, this artist wrote, "Instead of making cathedrals out of Christ, man, or 'life,' we are making [them] out of ourselves."
Barnett Newman