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dAVId NEWMAN

Lived and worked in France, Italy, Florida, New York and Texas, USA

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David Newman’s diverse and prolific career extends over six decades,
and has produced works ranging in size from miniature to monumental,
and in media from bronze and marble to oil paints, watercolors, ink,
pencil and pastels. The artist’s journey reveals a parallelism, despite
tremendous differences in moods, subjects, as well as techniques
and media – a spiral, an upside down cone, the opposite of linear –
or “wall-to-wall” consistency which characterize many great artists’
journeys – to Picasso’s diversity. David did not hesitate, now and then,
to change direction, and proceeded on many alleys. He acted on the
urge to explore new terrain as well as respected the gradual evolution
of one idea.

The early years started with representational works in sculpture and
painting. Later extensive studies in anatomy led to a vast production
of figurative work. The last 25 years were devoted to extremely
abstract creations with often large canvasses which have their roots
in passionate respect for the composition studied while in France and
Italy. It is this natural evolutive process of analytic study and synthetic
reconstruction that has led to these all encompassing joyful and
whimsical abstract statements.
From a hothouse conceptual bank of watercolors and ink, where the
bottle sprawls bold scrolls reminiscent of life’s basic components, David
refines the random edges of the ink rivers, taking chaos and breathing

 tree OF YeaH Or NaY, 1984 OIL ON CANvAS. 50x72 IN. / 127x182 CM. 
 FLaG 22, 2002 OIL ON CANvAS. 42x28 IN. / 106x71 CM.
 tOWers 13, 2002 OIL ON CANvAS 40x30 IN / 100x75 CM. 

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