Balthus
The
Mountain
1936-1937
oil on canvas
248 x 365,8
cm
Metropolitan
NY
Wladimir
Moszowski (BE)
Partisan's
Daughter
2015
oil on canvas
115 x 160 cm
Sunday, 25 June 2017
Saturday, 10 June 2017
Joseph Semah / Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
The Name I
1949
oil paint on
canvas
121,9 x 152,4
cm
collection
Daros, Zwitserland
HaSheM, in Hebrew 'the
Name'.
Religious Jews use the word
השם HaSheM for what
is unnameable, יהוה YHVH.
I read the work of Barnett
Newman, The Name I, from the tradition of the source text, the Hebrew.
Right to left: we see a
four-striped canvas, entitled The Name I.
The first line is very
thin, the third is thicker, the second and the fourth are identical, and the
thickest.
The first line stands for י YUD, the second and the fourth for ה HeH and the third for ו VaV. When we read this, from right to left, we see
that Newman has painted the name YAHUVEH YHVH; Tetragrammaton.
Joseph
Semah, 2017
Joseph Semah (IL/NL)
The Name השם (HaSheM)
1983
ink, pencil
on paper
30 x 21 cm
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