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Stephen Newton, born (March 3, 1948), is classified as an abstract expressionist painter.

Childhood
Stephen Newton was born in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. His father, Bernard Newton, was a Trawler Skipper operating out of the fishing port of Grimsby and latterly a

University
From

Early career
In the autumn of 1970

Newton’s circle
Newton’s work in Northumbria established him in a fertile artistic atmosphere.

First one-man show in London
Bruton St.

Development of style
In 1974, Newton began writing a book,

Maturity
Newton

Inspiration from mythology
Fearing that modern abstract painting had reached a conceptual dead end,

Newton’s use of psychoanalytical theory as a

Influence of Ritual
Newton’s new vision would attempt to address modern man’s spiritual and creative mythological requirements.

Many of his paintings of this period contrast

"Iconoclastic" Abstractionism
At the root of

Break with Surrealism
On June 13, 1

Latest period
"Truly Major,"

- Donald Kuspit

Newton’s aims, in some critics’ and viewers’ estimation, exceeded his methods.