Narrator: This painting from 1951 to 1952 is by Barnett Newman. Art historian and author Irving Sandler: Irving Sandler: One of the ideas that Barnett Newman worked with was to begin with color, rather than with drawing and with modeling, and this picture, Day One, is essentially a color field of a single color. These stripes which neither sit in front of nor behind the color field—therefore they cannot be considered forms—Barnett Newman referred to them as "zips," and their function was to intensify,to animate the orange field and to give it scale.And, of course, size contributes to the intensity, although Newman wanted these pictures shown in small rooms so the color would literally inundate, you'd be transported, actually, in this field of orange. Now what does this picture signify? What does it mean? The content of the work, the meaning of this work as Newman saw it, was a striving for the sublime. Now sublime is one of those real wishy-washy words. I mean, it could more or less mean anything, but we've all experienced it, if you think about certain experiences in nature that you've had, say,before Niagara Falls or the Rocky Mountains or perhaps experiencing or looking at pictures of an atomic blast or a cyclone or a great storm. And it's interesting that this painting should be titled Day One, as if we're at the beginning of a new world. Or at least a new picture.