Ad Reinhardt

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Ad Reinhardt

• Post Cubist Abstractionist

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• Ad Reinhardt was born Adolf Dietrich Frederick
  Reinhardt on December 13, 1913 in Buffalo, New
  York.
• He studied art history at Columbia and the
  American Artists School throughout the 1930s.
• Ad Reinhardts influence as a teacher and writer
  were as important as his art work. He taught at
  Brooklyn College from 1946 to 1967.

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As a pioneer of hard-edge painting, he would
limit his work to a single color, moving from red
to blue and eventually to his final series of
black paintings.

• The Red Painting, 1950

• Untitled, 1950

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Reinhardt was brought up with socialist parents
and he belonged to a left-wing artists union.
He was an advocate for art being separate from
social, political, and literary subjects. His
work is mainly strong geometric structure,
categorized as rhythmic post-cubic
abstractions.

• Abstract, 1951 The yellow painting,1946

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He was a talented cartoonist as well as a serious
student of oriental art. Although Reinhardt
applied his paint with brushes, he was careful to
leave no marks or visible signs of his
instrument. Respected by minimalists, his work
was called powerfully hypnotic.

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• Reinhardts stance on art as art was
  controversial.
• What in hell on earth, or in heaven, is an
  artist up to when he says he has something to
  say? An artist-as-artist, has always nothing to
  say, and he must say this over and over again.
• A fine artist has no use for use, no meaning for
  meaning, no need for any need.

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An example of black painting
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Only emptiness, complete consciousness,
disinterestedness-is the way he characterized
his understanding of the essence art. From 1953
until his death in 1967 he painted nothing but
black paintings.

• 1913-1967

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The End..
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