Word: sabachthani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newman, who has worked on the sequence over the past eight years, subtitled them with Christ's last cry, Lema sabachthani (Aramaic for "My God, my God, why forsake me?"). Says Newman: "This is the outcry of Jesus, the question that has no answer." At the end he has added a 15th painting, Be, II, which breaks the austerity with a bright orange band. He denies that this is a hint of the Resurrection, insists that the series refers to man's agony...
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