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
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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.
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.
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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.
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
The eye is a menace to clear sight.