Barnett Newman - Onement 1948

Barnett Newman - Onement 1948 - Oil on canvas and oil on masking tape on canvas - The Museum of Modern Art, New York

"Any art worthy of its name should address life, man, nature, death and tragedy." Barnett Newman

Today seems empty and quiet but also divided and chaotic. I chose Barnett Newman's painting Onement to illustrates how I feel about the current pandemic situation.  

About the piece from Artstory.com
"Newman saw Onement I as a breakthrough in his work. It features the first full incarnation of what he later called a "zip," a vertical band of color. This motif would play a central role in many of his subsequent paintings. The painting's title is an archaic derivation of the word "atonement," meaning, "the state of being made into one." For Newman, this unevenly painted zip on a flat field of color does not divide the canvas; rather, it merges both sides, drawing in the audience to intensely experience the work both physically and emotionally. Some have compared the zips to Alberto Giacometti's slender figures, reinforcing Newman's own connections between his paintings and the viewer's body.
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About the Artist from Wikipedia
Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. His paintings are existential in tone and content, explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality, presence, and contingency. 

Resources 
http://www.art-quotes.com/auth_search.php?authid=892#.XphIa8hKjFA
​https://www.theartstory.org/artist/newman-barnett/
​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Newman