"Newman painted Vir Heroicus Sublimis (Man, Heroic and Sublime) in 1950-51, when the United States was descending into the grasp of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and artistic censorship. The title refers to Newman’s essay The Sublime is Now, in which he asks, “If we are living in a time without a legend that can be called sublime, how can we be creating sublime art?”
Post-War America, with its strive for a new identity as the new global art center and a new set of values, created an auspicious ground for the avant-garde artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman and although their works differed aesthetically and technically, art critics like Clement Greenberg classified them all as abstract-expressionists"
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