{"text":"Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.","author":"Barnett Newman","tags":["aesthetic","communication","existentialism","expression","origins","the-void","void"],"id":207873,"author_id":"Barnett+Newman"}