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
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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.
Art is not the spiritual side of business.
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.
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
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.