Ad Reinhardt
The Art World was recreated in 4 days in 4 sections, 40 years ago, and originally in 4004 B.C.
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.
How to get ahead and keep one's head above hot water in the art whirl.
“Cycles Through The Chinese Landscape” ARTNews, NY Dec. 1954.
All through history a man's idea of what was "real" depended mainly on how he felt and what he thought about "space."
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.







