Word: sabacthani
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...tape. Against a void, these details carry an emotional charge - it's not hard to find meaning in tears, scratches and bleeding. When these works were shown at the Guggenheim in 1966, some questioned the theme's suitability for a modern Jewish artist. Newman pointed to the subtitle, Lema Sabacthani, the psalmist's cry of "Why hast thou forsaken me?", telling an interviewer: "This is what the paintings mean to me. The cry." After the Stations, he needed to reinvent himself once more, says Temkin, and he took to the new bright acrylic paints. His surfaces became denser...
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