Red with a Black and White Chaser

Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51, oil on canvasDetail below

In this post we go back to MoMA for another look at the Abstract Expressionist show. Never mind that most of the artists you see here--Newman, Reinhardt, Rothko-- are chromatic abstractionists, it's the generation of art and artists the exhibition embraces. As I mentioned in a previous post about the exhibition, Abstract