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Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue is a series of four large-scale paintings by Barnett Newman painted between 1966 and 1970. Two of them have been the subject of vandalistic attacks in museums. The series' name was a reference to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", the 1962 play by Edward Albee, which was in itself a reference to "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", the 1933 song immortalized in Disney
Baden-Baden. It is held in a private collection.
"Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue II".
This 1967 acrylic on canvas painting is part of the collection of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. It measures approximately 305 x 259 cm.
Philip Taaffe's 1985 "We Are Not Afraid" is openly acknowledged as a reply and tribute to Newman's paintings, especially "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue II", matching the basic layout and even the dimensions
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