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
I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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.
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 more an artist works the more there is to do.
I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.