Ad Reinhardt

The Art World was recreated in 4 days in 4 sections, 40 years ago, and originally in 4004 B.C.
Portend of the Artist as a Yhung Mandala. Originally published in ARTnews, 1956. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
American Abstract Artists protest leaflet, 1940. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
American Abstract Artists protest leaflet, 1940. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
A modern painter's worst enemy is the picture-maker who somehow creates in people the illusion that one need not know anything about art or art-history to understand it.
Ad Reinhardt, "How to Look at Things Through a Wine Glass," 1946. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
How to get ahead and keep one's head above hot water in the art whirl.
Ad Reinhardt, "Art of Life of Art," trans/formation, 1952. Courtesy the Ad Reinhardt Foundation.
“Cycles Through The Chinese Landscape” ARTNews, NY Dec. 1954.
Cycles through the Chinese Lanscape
All through history a man's idea of what was "real" depended mainly on how he felt and what he thought about "space."
"How to Look at Space," PM, 1946. Image courtesy David Zwirner Gallery.
Published in Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on Revolution. Ed. Ned O’Gorman (New York: Random House, 1969).
Published in Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on Revolution. Ed. Ned O'Gorman (New York: Random House, 1969).
The next revolution in art will be the same, old, one revolution.
The Next Revolution in Art (Art-as-Art Dogma, Part II)

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