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.

Two paintings from the early 1950s for example are called Adam and Eve (see Adam and Eve) and there is also Uriel (1954) and Abraham (1949) a very dark painting which as well as being the name of a biblical patriarch was also the name of Newman's father who had died in 1947. Broken Obelisk
Vir Heroicus Sublimis. S.

Barnett Newman (January 29 1905 – July 4 1970) was an American artist.