“.. the terror to expect. Hiroshima showed it to us. The terror has indeed become as real as life.”

— Barnett Newman

Quote from Newman's essay of 1945, as cited in: Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London 1990, p. 20
1940 - 1950

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American artist 1905–1970

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