Ad Reinhardt
Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Frederick Reinhardtwas an abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism. He was also a founding member of the Artist's Club. He wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting. Most famous for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth24 December 1913
CountryUnited States of America
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
Art is not the spiritual side of business.
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
The more an artist works the more there is to do.