Focus on this artwork and explain the Interpretation of Vir Heroicus Sublimis.
Newman’s paintings have elicited many different interpretations and reactions from various art critics and viewers: "They have sometimes been regarded as philosophic statements made without artistic skill, or conversely, as pure painting devoid of a subject."  Despite their simplistic composition, Newman places emphasis on the weighty meaning of his works, as evidenced by the titles he chooses for his works. Rather than titling them by number, as Pollock and Rothko did, Newman gives his works specific titles that hint at their intended meanings. For example, his work Adam, 1951–52, has been likened to the Book of Genesis, and the zips in that work have been interpreted as references to the concept that God and man exist as a single beam of light.Vir Heroicus Sublimis has been interpreted in a variety of ways. Many critics, when discussing Newman, refer to his attempt to capture both the tangible and intangible, "spirit and matter", and Vir Heroicus, with its particularly large scale, as the epitome of that struggle. Newman himself compared seeing his painting for the first time to meeting a new person: "It's no different, really, from meeting another person. One has a reaction to the person physically. Also, there's a metaphysical thing, and if a meeting of people is meaningful, it affects both their lives."  Viewers feel as if they are in the presence of something monumental when they see Vir Heroicus, but Newman wanted viewers to see more than that: he wanted to convey his feelings about the tragic human condition.
1951 Rothko Book of Genesis Pollock